Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 50
“When a tree is brought to the ground by the woodsman, can the branches continue to live?”
Who acts: woodsman, branches · What happens: bring, continue, live · To what, where: tree, ground
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 (woodsman, branches), 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 | _ | 17 continue | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 brought | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 continue | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 woodsman | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woodsman | det |
| 12 | woodsman | woodsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 continue | aux |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branches | det |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 continue | nsubj |
| 17 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 continue | xcomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 continue | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · passive | the woodsman | a tree | the ground | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | continue in a quote | can | the branches | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | the branches not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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