Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 46
His greatest regret was in not being able to look upon the face of his little daughter.
Who acts: greatest regret, sun · What happens: not be, look, regret
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 (greatest regret, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 regret | nmod:poss |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 regret | amod |
| 3 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 able | case |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 able | advmod |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daughter | amod |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | sun's greatest regret | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | sun's greatest regret not said here | upon the face of sun's little daughter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon face=Theme | ||||
| 3 | regret | sun | nom regret «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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