Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 3
“Console yourself, my dear, we are not yet so old that Heaven may not smile upon us.
Who acts: you, we, Heaven · What happens: console, not be, not smile · To what, where: yourself
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 (you, we, Heaven), 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 | _ | 2 Console | punct |
| 2 | Console | console | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Console | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dear | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Console | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 old | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 old | advmod |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Console | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 smile | mark |
| 15 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 smile | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 smile | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 smile | advmod |
| 18 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 old | advcl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 smile | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Console | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | console in a quote | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | we | yet | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not smile in a quote | may | Heaven | upon us | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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