Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 102
When you see an apple that looks attractive but contains a worm, you may contemplate its beauty but you keep your mouth away.
Who acts: you, apple · What happens: see, look, contain, contemplate, keep away · To what, where: apple, worm, beauty, mouth
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 (you, apple), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 contemplate | advcl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 apple | det |
| 5 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 looks | nsubj |
| 7 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 apple | acl:relcl |
| 8 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looks | xcomp |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 contains | cc |
| 10 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 looks | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 worm | det |
| 12 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contains | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 contemplate | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 contemplate | aux |
| 16 | contemplate | contemplate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 contemplate | obj |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 keep | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | nsubj |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 contemplate | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 keep | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 contemplate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | a apple | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | present | a apple | attractive property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | contain | present | a apple not said here | a worm | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot worm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | contemplate | may | you | worm's beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep away | present | you | your mouth | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |
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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