Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 133
The poor girl is dead and I am still deprived of the light of day.”
Who acts: poor girl · What happens: be, deprive, light · To what, where: 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 (poor girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 deprived | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 deprived | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 deprived | aux:pass |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 deprived | advmod |
| 10 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dead | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deprived | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the poor girl | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deprive | present · passive | I | still | of the light of day | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of light=Theme | |||
| 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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