Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 9
Formerly happy and influential, our friend (for call him such we will) was to become the most unfortunate and the most miserable of men.
What happens: call, become · To what, where: friend · 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: 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 | Formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 2 happy | advmod |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 become | advcl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 influential | cc |
| 4 | influential | influential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 happy | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happy | conj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 call | case |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 friend | appos |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 will | amod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 will | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 call | advcl |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 become | mark |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 unfortunate | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 unfortunate | advmod |
| 21 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 become | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 miserable | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 miserable | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 miserable | advmod |
| 25 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 unfortunate | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 miserable | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | infinitive | friend | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | become | past | unfortunate property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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