Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 63
Hold back--not for fire, nor for the waters, nor for the mountains.
Who acts: you · What happens: hold back
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Hold | advmod |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 fire | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fire | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waters | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 waters | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 waters | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waters | det |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hold | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mountains | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 mountains | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 mountains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountains | det |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hold | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold back | imperative | you not said here | for fire; for the mountains; the waters parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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