Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 159
“Mother,” declared San-Syeng, “I am going to place a memorial in this spot to perpetuate the sublime sacrifice of your poor companion.”
Who acts: Mother · What happens: declare, go, perpetuate, sacrifice · To what, where: San, place, spot, sublime sacrifice, poor companion · 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 (Mother), 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 | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 5 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Syeng | punct |
| 8 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 San | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 declared | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 place | mark |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 memorial | det |
| 17 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 perpetuate | mark |
| 22 | perpetuate | perpetuate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sacrifice | det |
| 24 | sublime | sublime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sacrifice | amod |
| 25 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perpetuate | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 companion | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 companion | nmod:poss |
| 28 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 companion | amod |
| 29 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sacrifice | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | Mother | San | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent san=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Mother | place | this spot | a memorial xcomp | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spot=Location | ||
| 3 | perpetuate in a quote | to-infinitive | Mother not said here | the sublime sacrifice of your poor companion | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sacrifice in a quote | your poor companion | nom sacrifice «act 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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