Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 166
“Alas,” they cried, “We cannot even see the recipient of this good fortune.”
Who acts: Alas, We · What happens: cry, not see · To what, where: recipient · 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 (Alas, We), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 2 | Alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 see | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 see | advmod |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 recipient | det |
| 15 | recipient | recipient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fortune | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 fortune | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortune | amod |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recipient | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Alas | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | can | We | the recipient of this good fortune | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer recipient=Stimulus |
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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