Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 115
Concluding, the blind man said, with a sigh: “If my lack of a comely appearance and a rich garb displeases you, put me in a corner by myself, please.”
Who acts: blind man, lack, my · What happens: conclude, say, displease, put, lack · To what, where: you, blind man, corner, comely appearance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (blind man, lack, 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 | Concluding | conclude | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Concluding | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sigh | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sigh | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sigh | det |
| 10 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 displeases | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lack | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 displeases | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 appearance | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 appearance | det |
| 18 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 appearance | amod |
| 19 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lack | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 garb | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 garb | det |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 garb | amod |
| 23 | garb | garb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appearance | conj |
| 24 | displeases | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 put | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 displeases | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 displeases | punct |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 sigh | parataxis |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 put | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 corner | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 corner | det |
| 31 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 myself | case |
| 33 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 put | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 please | punct |
| 35 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 27 put | discourse |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 put | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sigh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | gerund | the blind man not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the blind man | a sigh ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | displease a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | my lack of a comely appearance and a rich garb | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | put in a quote | infinitive | the blind man = man | a corner | by the blind man = man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in corner=Destination | |||
| 5 | lack in a quote | my | a comely appearance and a rich garb | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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