Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 132
She furnished a beautiful example of filial love, sacrificing her life on the promise that I would regain my sight.
Who acts: daughter, promise, my · What happens: furnish, sacrifice, regain, exemplify, sight · To what, where: beautiful example, life, promise, sight, filial love
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 (daughter, promise, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 furnished | nsubj |
| 2 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 example | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 example | amod |
| 5 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 furnished | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 love | case |
| 7 | filial | filial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 love | amod |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 example | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sacrificing | punct |
| 10 | sacrificing | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 furnished | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sacrificing | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 promise | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 promise | det |
| 15 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sacrificing | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 regain | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 regain | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 regain | aux |
| 19 | regain | regain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promise | acl:relcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sight | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 regain | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 furnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | past | daughter | a beautiful example of filial love | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | sacrifice | gerund | daughter not said here | daughter's life | the promise | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 3 | regain | would | the promise | my sight | I nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 4 | exemplify | filial love | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | sight | my | nom sight «cognition 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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