Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 82
Perhaps he is intoxicated with its perfume; perhaps he is leaving a kiss on its rosy lips?
Who acts: butterfly, flower · What happens: intoxicate, leave, perfume · To what, where: butterfly, kiss, rosy lips
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butterfly, flower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 intoxicated | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 intoxicated | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 intoxicated | aux:pass |
| 4 | intoxicated | intoxicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 perfume | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 perfume | nmod:poss |
| 7 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 intoxicated | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaving | punct |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 leaving | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leaving | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 leaving | aux |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 intoxicated | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kiss | det |
| 14 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 lips | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lips | amod |
| 18 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leaving | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 intoxicated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intoxicate | present · passive | butterfly | with flower's perfume; perhaps property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · progressive | butterfly | a kiss | flower's rosy lips | perhaps property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme on lip=Location | ||
| 3 | perfume | flower | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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