Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 112
But I, on the contrary, have never seen the light of day since I was stricken by blindness.
Who acts: I, blindness · What happens: not see, stricken, light · To what, where: light, I, day
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 (I, blindness), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 seen | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 contrary | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 contrary | det |
| 6 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 I | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 seen | advmod |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | nmod |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 stricken | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 stricken | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stricken | aux:pass |
| 18 | stricken | stricken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seen | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 blindness | case |
| 20 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stricken | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · perfect | I | the light of day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stricken | past · passive | blindness | I | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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