Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 28
We have always protected and shared with the unfortunate and yet the gods permit us to be parted.
Who acts: gods · What happens: protect, share, permit, part · To what, where: We, us
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 (gods), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 protected | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 protected | advmod |
| 4 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shared | cc |
| 6 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 protected | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 unfortunate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 unfortunate | det |
| 9 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shared | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 permit | cc |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 permit | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 permit | nsubj |
| 14 | permit | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 protected | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 permit | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 parted | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 parted | aux:pass |
| 18 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 permit | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 protected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present · perfect · passive | We | always property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | with the unfortunate | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | permit | present | the gods | us | yet | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 4 | part | to-infinitive · passive | the gods not said here | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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