Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 100
The wicked and crafty often conceal a cowardly and vile disposition beneath a beautiful exterior.
Who acts: wicked · What happens: conceal · To what, where: cowardly disposition, beautiful exterior
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wicked | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 conceal | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crafty | cc |
| 4 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wicked | conj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 conceal | advmod |
| 6 | conceal | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 disposition | det |
| 8 | cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 disposition | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vile | cc |
| 10 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cowardly | conj |
| 11 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conceal | obj |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 exterior | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 exterior | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 exterior | amod |
| 15 | exterior | exterior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disposition | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | present | the wicked | a cowardly disposition | a beautiful exterior | often property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent disposition=Patient beneath exterior=Location |
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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