Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 49
_For it has been proclaimed by The Great Teacher and Venerable Philosopher from the depths of his Wisdom, that all things having the appearance of Evil are transient and that Goodness will overcome and Virtue triumph.
Who acts: Great Teacher, things, Goodness · What happens: proclaim, have, be, overcome · To what, where: home, depths, appearance, triumph
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 (Great Teacher, things, Goodness), 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 proclaimed | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 proclaimed | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 proclaimed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 6 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Teacher | case |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Teacher | det |
| 9 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Teacher | amod |
| 10 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 proclaimed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Philosopher | cc |
| 12 | Venerable | Venerable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Philosopher | compound |
| 13 | Philosopher | Philosopher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Teacher | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 depths | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 depths | det |
| 16 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 proclaimed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Wisdom | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Wisdom | Wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 depths | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 transient | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 transient | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 things | det |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 transient | nsubj |
| 24 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 things | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 appearance | det |
| 26 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 having | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Evil | case |
| 28 | Evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appearance | nmod |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 transient | cop |
| 30 | transient | transient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proclaimed | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 overcome | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 overcome | mark |
| 33 | Goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 overcome | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 overcome | aux |
| 35 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 transient | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Virtue | cc |
| 37 | Virtue | Virtue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 overcome | conj |
| 38 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 overcome | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | present · perfect · passive | the Great Teacher and Venerable Philosopher | home | the depths of Minister's Wisdom | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | all things not said here | the appearance of Evil | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | all things | transient property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | overcome | future | Goodness | triumph | Virtue conj | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot triumph=Theme |
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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