Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 131
I became blind and my only consolation, a little daughter, was taken away.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: become, take away, console · To what, where: only consolation
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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 became | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taken | cc |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 consolation | nmod:poss |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 consolation | amod |
| 7 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughter | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 daughter | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daughter | amod |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consolation | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 consolation | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 became | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 taken | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | I | blind property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take away | past · passive | my only consolation and a little daughter | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | console | my | nom consolation «feeling 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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