Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 40
I can scarcely believe that this misfortune took place while I was leading this life of idleness and pleasure.”
Who acts: I, misfortune · What happens: believe, take, lead · To what, where: place, life · Speech: someone speaks here
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, misfortune), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 took | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 misfortune | det |
| 7 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 leading | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 leading | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 leading | aux |
| 13 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 life | det |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leading | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 idleness | case |
| 17 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pleasure | cc |
| 19 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 idleness | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | can | I | scarcely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | this misfortune | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past · progressive | I | this life of idleness and pleasure | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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