Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 51
Finding his attentions repulsed, he resolved to obtain revenge--the mark of a small mind.
Who acts: Yei · What happens: find, repulse, resolve, obtain, attend, mark · To what, where: attentions, revenge, small mind
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 (Yei), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 resolved | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 attentions | nmod:poss |
| 3 | attentions | attention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Finding | obj |
| 4 | repulsed | repulse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 attentions | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finding | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 resolved | nsubj |
| 7 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 obtain | mark |
| 9 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 resolved | xcomp |
| 10 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtain | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 mark | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mark | det |
| 13 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 revenge | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mind | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mind | amod |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mark | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | Yei not said here | Yei's attentions | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Topic | ||||
| 2 | repulse | participle | Yei's attentions not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | resolve | past | Yei | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | obtain | to-infinitive | Yei not said here | revenge and the mark of a small mind | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset revenge=Theme | ||||
| 5 | attend | Yei | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | mark | a small mind | nom mark «cognition 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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