Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 41
We are like the grass which the Springtime brings to life, like the beneficial rain after a long drought.”
Who acts: We, Springtime · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: grass, life
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 (We, Springtime), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grass | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grass | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grass | det |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 brings | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Springtime | det |
| 8 | Springtime | springtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brings | nsubj |
| 9 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grass | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brings | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rain | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 rain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rain | det |
| 15 | beneficial | beneficial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rain | amod |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brings | obl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 drought | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drought | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 drought | amod |
| 20 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brings | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grass | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | like the grass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | the Springtime | the grass | life | after a long drought | like the beneficial rain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to life=Destination |
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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