Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 138
Doubtless it will be painful to live so far from our King and our friends but at least we shall have peace in the future.”
Who acts: Doubtless, we · What happens: be, live, have · To what, where: peace, least
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Doubtless, we), 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 | Doubtless | Doubtless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 painful | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 painful | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 painful | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 painful | cop |
| 5 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 painful | advcl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 live | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 King | nmod:poss |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 friends | cc |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 King | conj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 18 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 have | obl |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 live | conj |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 future | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 future | det |
| 25 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 painful | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 painful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | Doubtless | misfortune nsubj; painful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | Doubtless not said here | from our King and our friends; far property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | we | peace | least | in the future | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
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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