Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 43
Our friend was always in tears; he could get no rest nor sleep and shortly more ill fortune came to him.
Who acts: friend, ill fortune · What happens: be, get, come · To what, where: tears, rest, friend
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 (friend, ill fortune), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tears | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tears | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 tears | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tears | case |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tears | parataxis |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 sleep | cc |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rest | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 16 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 ill | advmod |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortune | amod |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Our friend | tears | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | could | friend | no rest nor sleep | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | ill fortune | friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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