Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 173
“To tell him the truth,” she said to herself “is to condemn him to a death from grief.
Who acts: affair · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: truth, father, affair, grief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (affair), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 tell | mark |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 herself | case |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 condemn | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 condemn | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 condemn | mark |
| 16 | condemn | condemn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 condemn | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 death | det |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 condemn | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 grief | case |
| 22 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 condemn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | the truth | father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | affair | affair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | affair not said here | grief | to a death; father obj; condemn property | tree rules |
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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