Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 4
Although misfortunes a-plenty had been his share, he did not hold any resentment against humanity.
Who acts: Yen · What happens: be, not hold · To what, where: share, resentment, humanity
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yen), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 2 misfortunes | case |
| 2 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hold | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plenty | det |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 a | punct |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 misfortunes | obj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 share | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 share | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 share | nmod:poss |
| 9 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plenty | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 misfortunes | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hold | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hold | advmod |
| 14 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 resentment | det |
| 16 | resentment | resentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | obj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 humanity | case |
| 18 | humanity | humanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | Yen's share | Yen nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hold | past · do-support | Yen | any resentment | humanity | although misfortunes a plenty | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent resentment=Theme against humanity=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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