Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 131
His concluding words were--“I have on my arm the name of San-Syeng, but I do not know how it is that I bear these characters which I have tried in vain to remove.”
Who acts: young man, name, man · What happens: conclude, have, not know, be, try, remove · To what, where: name, arm, characters, concluding words, San
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, name, man), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 words | nmod:poss |
| 2 | concluding | conclude | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 “ | cop |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 “ | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 “ | parataxis |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 arm | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 San | case |
| 15 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Syeng | punct |
| 17 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 San | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | parataxis |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 bear | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bear | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bear | cop |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 bear | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 bear | nsubj |
| 29 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | advcl |
| 30 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 characters | det |
| 31 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bear | obj |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 tried | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 tried | aux |
| 35 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 characters | acl:relcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 vain | case |
| 37 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tried | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 remove | mark |
| 39 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 vain | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | gerund | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the young man in turn = man | the name of San | my arm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the young man in turn = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | name | I nsubj; this characters obj; bear property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | try in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this characters | I nsubj; vain property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | remove in a quote | to-infinitive | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | word | man | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | name in a quote | San | nom name «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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