Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 148
“You are happier than I for you can continually accompany him whom I love, while I am to be separated from him.”
Who acts: You, General · What happens: be, accompany, love, separate · To what, where: fellow, General · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, General), 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 happier | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 happier | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happier | cop |
| 4 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 I | case |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 happier | obl |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 accompany | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 accompany | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 accompany | aux |
| 10 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 11 accompany | advmod |
| 11 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happier | csubj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 accompany | obj |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 accompany | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 love | nsubj |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 separated | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 separated | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 separated | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 separated | aux:pass |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 separated | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 separated | aux:pass |
| 22 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happier | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 separated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happier | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | than General; happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accompany in a quote | can | you | fellow | whom obj; continually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | love in a quote | present | General | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | separate in a quote | present · passive | General | from fellow | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from he=Co-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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