Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 15
This ring, which I hold in my hand, I placed in his clothes when I was obliged to abandon him.”
Who acts: ring · What happens: hold, place, oblige, abandon · To what, where: hand, clothes, I, Si
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 (ring), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ring | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ring | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 placed | nsubj |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 clothes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 placed | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 obliged | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 obliged | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 obliged | aux:pass |
| 19 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 placed | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 abandon | mark |
| 21 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 obliged | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 abandon | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | this ring | my hand | I nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | place | past | this ring | Si's clothes | I nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in clothes=Destination | |||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | abandon | to-infinitive | Si | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme he=Source |
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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