Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 107
The flower often thought of the poor tree from which it had been stolen and the latter, shorn of its only child, was slowly dying of a broken heart.
Who acts: latter · What happens: think, steal, die, break · To what, where: flower, poor tree
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 (latter), 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 flower | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stolen | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stolen | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 stolen | aux:pass |
| 14 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tree | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dying | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 latter | det |
| 17 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dying | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shorn | punct |
| 19 | shorn | shorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 latter | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 child | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 child | nmod:poss |
| 22 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 child | amod |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shorn | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 latter | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 dying | aux |
| 26 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 27 dying | advmod |
| 27 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tree | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 heart | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 heart | det |
| 30 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 heart | amod |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dying | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle · passive | the flower | of the poor tree; often property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | steal | past · perfect · passive | flower | the poor tree | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source | ||||
| 3 | die | past · progressive | the latter | of a broken heart; slowly property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of heart=Causer | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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