Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 5
“I have only done my duty in sheltering an unfortunate woman.
Who acts: former companion · What happens: do, shelter · To what, where: duty, unfortunate woman
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 (former companion), 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 | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 duty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 sheltering | mark |
| 9 | sheltering | shelter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 done | advcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sheltering | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | the nun's former companion = companion | my duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | shelter in a quote | gerund | the nun's former companion = companion not said here | a unfortunate woman | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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