Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 82
“My strength will never permit me to make such a long journey,” replied Sun-Yen.
Who acts: strength, Sun · What happens: not permit, make, reply · To what, where: Sun, long journey · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (strength, Sun), 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 | _ | 6 permit | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 strength | nmod:poss |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 permit | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 permit | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 permit | advmod |
| 6 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 permit | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 permit | advcl |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 journey | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 journey | amod |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 permit | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 permit | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | obj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yen | punct |
| 19 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sun | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not permit in a quote | future | My strength | Sun and Yen = sun | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | My strength not said here | such long journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Sun and Yen | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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