Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 89
“I am positive that he died in that fire--his body is ashes.
Who acts: General, son, body · What happens: be, die · To what, where: ashes
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 (General, son, body), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 positive | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 positive | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 positive | cop |
| 4 | positive | positive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 died | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 positive | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 ashes | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ashes | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ashes | cop |
| 15 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fire | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 positive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the General = general | positive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | past | son | in that fire and ashes | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in fire=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | son's body | ashes | 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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