Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 78
His dejection was pitiful to behold, and he awaited with impatience the death that would free him from his constant misery.
Who acts: dejection, sight · What happens: be, await, deject · To what, where: death, constant misery
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 (dejection, sight), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dejection | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dejection | dejection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pitiful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitiful | cop |
| 4 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 behold | case |
| 6 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 pitiful | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 awaited | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 awaited | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 awaited | nsubj |
| 10 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitiful | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 impatience | case |
| 12 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awaited | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 death | det |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awaited | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 free | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 free | aux |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 death | amod |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 free | nsubj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 misery | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 misery | nmod:poss |
| 21 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 misery | amod |
| 22 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awaited | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sight's dejection | pitiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | await | past | sight | the death | sight's constant misery | with impatience | tree rules | ||
| 3 | deject | sight | nom dejection «state 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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