Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 13
Many of the best portions of Chinese literature are readily obtainable in an English dress.
Who acts: Many best portions · What happens: be · To what, where: English dress
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many best portions), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 portions | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 portions | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 portions | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 portions | amod |
| 5 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 obtainable | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 literature | case |
| 7 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 literature | amod |
| 8 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 portions | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 obtainable | cop |
| 10 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 11 obtainable | advmod |
| 11 | obtainable | obtainable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dress | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dress | det |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dress | amod |
| 15 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 obtainable | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 obtainable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Many best portions of Chinese literature | a English dress | obtainable, readily property | tree rules |
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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