Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 53
And San-Syeng found it useless to endeavor to dissuade Su-Yeng from his fatal purpose.
Who acts: San, life, brother · What happens: find, endeavor, dissuade, purpose · To what, where: life, Su, fatal purpose
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 (San, life, brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 2 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 San | punct |
| 4 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 San | flat |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 endeavor | mark |
| 9 | endeavor | endeavor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 useless | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dissuade | mark |
| 11 | dissuade | dissuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 endeavor | xcomp |
| 12 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dissuade | obj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yeng | punct |
| 14 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Su | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 purpose | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 purpose | amod |
| 18 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dissuade | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | San | life | useless property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | endeavor | to-infinitive | life not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dissuade | to-infinitive | life not said here | Su and Yeng | brother's fatal purpose | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer su=Beneficiary from purpose=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | purpose | brother | nom purpose «cognition 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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