Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 118
A man, whose daughter was obliged to beg to keep him from starving, would never be able to fulfill the promise which he had signed.
Who acts: man · What happens: oblige, beg, keep, starve, not be, fulfill · To what, where: man, promise
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliged | aux:pass |
| 7 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 beg | mark |
| 9 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 obliged | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beg | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 starving | mark |
| 14 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 keep | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 able | punct |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 able | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 able | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | cop |
| 19 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 obliged | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fulfill | mark |
| 21 | fulfill | fulfill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 promise | det |
| 23 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fulfill | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 signed | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 signed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 signed | aux |
| 27 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 promise | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | a man and a man and a man's daughter's daughter | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | starve | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not is | would | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | fulfill | to-infinitive | the promise | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | sign | past · perfect | man | the promise | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Destination |
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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