Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 164
When we lived at the Capital I was never able to accompany you in your walks.”
Who acts: we, I, your · What happens: live, not be, accompany, walk · To what, where: Capital, you, walks
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 (we, I, your), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Capital | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Capital | det |
| 6 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 able | advmod |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lived | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 accompany | mark |
| 12 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 accompany | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 walks | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 walks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | walks | walk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 accompany | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | we | the Capital | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at capital=Location | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accompany | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | your walks | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in walk=Destination | |||
| 4 | walk | your | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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