Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 93
The sun was sinking below the horizon in a blaze of gold and glory.
Who acts: sun, gold · What happens: sink, blaze · To what, where: horizon
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 (sun, gold), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sinking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sinking | aux |
| 4 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | below | below | ADP | _ | 7 horizon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horizon | det |
| 7 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sinking | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 blaze | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blaze | det |
| 10 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sinking | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blaze | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glory | cc |
| 14 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past · progressive | the sun | the horizon | in a blaze of gold and glory | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | blaze | gold and glory | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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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