Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 34
Several of your subjects have just died of starvation by the roadside.
Who acts: Several subjects · What happens: die
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 (Several subjects), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 subjects | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 subjects | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 4 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 died | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 died | advmod |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 starvation | case |
| 9 | starvation | starvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 roadside | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roadside | det |
| 12 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · perfect | your Several subjects | of starvation; by the roadside | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer |
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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