Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 101
People of wisdom pay no attention to form, but probe to the bottom where kindness and gentleness often abide.
Who acts: People, kindness · What happens: pay, form, abide · To what, where: attention
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 (People, kindness), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 wisdom | case |
| 3 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 People | nmod |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 attention | det |
| 6 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pay | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 form | mark |
| 8 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 attention | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 probe | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 probe | cc |
| 11 | probe | probe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pay | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bottom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bottom | det |
| 14 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 probe | nmod |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 abide | advmod |
| 16 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 abide | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gentleness | cc |
| 18 | gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kindness | conj |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 abide | advmod |
| 20 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | People of wisdom | no attention | probe to the bottom obl | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 2 | form | to-infinitive | People of wisdom not said here | no attention not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | abide | present | kindness and gentleness | often property | tree rules |
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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