Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 85
He was optimistic and cherished the brightest hopes of having his wishes crowned with success.
Who acts: man, brightest hopes · What happens: be, cherish, have, crown, wish · To what, where: brightest hopes, wishes
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 (man, brightest hopes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 optimistic | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 optimistic | cop |
| 3 | optimistic | optimistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cherished | cc |
| 5 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 optimistic | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hopes | det |
| 7 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 hopes | amod |
| 8 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cherished | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 having | mark |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hopes | acl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 having | obj |
| 13 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wishes | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 success | case |
| 15 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crowned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 optimistic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | optimistic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cherish | past | man not said here | the brightest hopes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hope=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the brightest hopes not said here | man's wishes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crown | participle | man's wishes not said here | with success | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with success=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wish | man | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/85/