Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 35
Thank Heaven it is granted me to satisfy my thirst for vengeance.
Who acts: my · What happens: thank, grant, satisfy, thirst · To what, where: Heaven, wretch, thirst
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 (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 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 granted | advcl |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thank | obj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 granted | aux:pass |
| 5 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 granted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 satisfy | mark |
| 8 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 granted | advcl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 satisfy | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 vengeance | case |
| 12 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 satisfy | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | Heaven | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grant | present · passive | wretch | me obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | to-infinitive | my thirst | for vengeance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | thirst | my | nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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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