Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 114
My sighs are sadder than the night wind that whistles through the forest tops.”
Who acts: sighs, night wind, My · What happens: be, whistle, sigh · To what, where: forest tops
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 (sighs, night wind, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sighs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sadder | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sadder | cop |
| 4 | sadder | sad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wind | compound |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sadder | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 whistles | nsubj |
| 10 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wind | acl:relcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 tops | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tops | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tops | compound |
| 14 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 whistles | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sadder | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sadder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My sighs | than the night wind; sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whistle | present | the night wind | the forest tops | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through top=Location | ||||
| 3 | sigh | My | nom sigh «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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