Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 171
My father suffered a severe defeat while attacking that country and it is my duty to avenge him.
Who acts: father, defeat · What happens: suffer, attack, be, avenge · To what, where: severe defeat, duty, father
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 (father, defeat), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffered | nsubj |
| 3 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 defeat | det |
| 5 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 defeat | amod |
| 6 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffered | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 attacking | mark |
| 8 | attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 suffered | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 country | mark |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attacking | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 duty | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 duty | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 duty | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 duty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attacking | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 avenge | mark |
| 17 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 duty | acl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 avenge | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | My father | a severe defeat | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer defeat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | attack | gerund | My father not said here | country advcl | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | defeat | my duty | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | avenge | to-infinitive | My father not said here | father | tree rules |
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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