Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 38
Just a few moments ago, I saw with my own eyes three wretches who had died from want of food.”
Who acts: I, three wretches · What happens: see, die, want · To what, where: want, food
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 (I, three wretches), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 moments | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moments | amod |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obl |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 moments | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moments | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obl |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wretches | nummod |
| 14 | wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eyes | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 died | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 died | aux |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 wretches | acl:relcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 want | case |
| 19 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 died | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 want | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | moment | with my own eyes and three wretches | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | three wretches | want of food | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from want=Causer | ||||
| 3 | want | food | nom want «state transitive»: of=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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