Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 42
These frequent visits merely aggravated his anguish and it was impossible for him to control himself.
Who acts: frequent visits, sun · What happens: aggravate, be, control, anguish · To what, where: anguish, sun
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 (frequent visits, sun), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 visits | det |
| 2 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 visits | amod |
| 3 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 aggravated | nsubj |
| 4 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 5 aggravated | advmod |
| 5 | aggravated | aggravate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 anguish | nmod:poss |
| 7 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aggravated | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 impossible | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 impossible | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 impossible | cop |
| 11 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 aggravated | conj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 control | mark |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 control | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 control | mark |
| 15 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 impossible | csubj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 control | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aggravated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aggravate | past | this frequent visits | sun's anguish | merely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anguish=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | this frequent visits not said here | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | control | to-infinitive | sun | sun | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | anguish | sun | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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