Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 21

He has attempted to preserve the simple, child-like form of the narrative and has made few alterations in it, and these only when clearness and the English idiom required them.

Who acts: translator, clearness · What happens: attempt, preserve, make, require, form · To what, where: simple like form, few alterations, narrative, alterations

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 (translator, clearness), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 attempted	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 attempted	aux
3	attempted	attempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 preserve	mark
5	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 attempted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 form	det
7	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 form	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 simple	punct
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 like	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
11	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 form	amod
12	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 preserve	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 form	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 attempted	conj
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 alterations	amod
20	alterations	alteration	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 required	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 required	cc
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 clearness	det
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 clearness	advmod
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 clearness	advmod
28	clearness	clearness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 required	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 idiom	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 idiom	det
31	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 idiom	amod
32	idiom	idiom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clearness	conj
33	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 attempted	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 required	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 attempted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	attempt	present · perfect	translator			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	preserve not said to happen	to-infinitive	translator not said here	the simple like form of the narrative		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Beneficiary
3	make	present · perfect	translator not said here	few alterations	narrative	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset alteration=Product
4	require	past	this clearness and the English idiom	alterations = alteration		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Precondition
5	form			the narrative		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 21