Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 83
“As it is, I can scarcely take a few steps from my own door.”
Who acts: journey, Sun · What happens: be, take · To what, where: few steps, own door
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 (journey, 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 | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 8 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 steps | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steps | amod |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 door | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 door | amod |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | journey | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | can | Sun and Yen = sun | a few steps | my own door | scarcely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent step=Theme from door=Initial_Location |
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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