Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 91
Soon the moon will be shining, for the moon loves the sun and will pursue it into the darkness of night.
Who acts: moon, shining · What happens: shine, love, pursue · To what, where: sun, darkness
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 (moon, shining), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 shining | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shining | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 shining | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shining | aux |
| 6 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 loves | csubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shining | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 moon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moon | det |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shining | obl |
| 11 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loves | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pursue | cc |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 pursue | aux |
| 16 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 loves | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pursue | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 darkness | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 darkness | det |
| 20 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pursue | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 darkness | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 loves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | future · progressive | the moon | for the moon; soon property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | love | present | shining | the sun | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pursue | future | shining not said here | sun | the darkness of night | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme into darkness=Trajectory |
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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