Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 76
He led a wretched existence--his strength being sustained only by the promise of the disciple that his sight would be restored to him at the end of three years.
Who acts: Korea, promise · What happens: lead, sustain, restore, promise, sight · To what, where: wretched existence, strength, sight, Korea, end, disciple
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 (Korea, promise), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 existence | det |
| 4 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 existence | amod |
| 5 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 sustained | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 strength | nmod:poss |
| 8 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sustained | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sustained | aux:pass |
| 10 | sustained | sustain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 led | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 promise | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 promise | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 promise | det |
| 14 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sustained | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 disciple | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 disciple | det |
| 17 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 promise | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 restored | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sight | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 restored | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 restored | aux:pass |
| 23 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 promise | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 restored | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 restored | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 years | case |
| 30 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 years | nummod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 end | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Korea | a wretched existence | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sustain | gerund · passive | Korea's strength | the promise of the disciple obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | restore | would · passive | the promise of the disciple not said here | Korea's sight | Korea | at the end of three years | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 4 | promise | the disciple | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | sight | Korea | nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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