Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 49
She was now in her thirteenth year and was obliged to help support her poor father who was without resources of any kind.
Who acts: blow, poor father · What happens: be, oblige, help, support · To what, where: poor father
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 (blow, poor father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 year | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 year | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 year | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 year | nmod:poss |
| 6 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 obliged | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 obliged | aux:pass |
| 10 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 year | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 help | mark |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 obliged | advcl |
| 13 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 help | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 father | amod |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 support | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 resources | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 resources | cop |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 resources | case |
| 20 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 father | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kind | case |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 kind | det |
| 23 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 resources | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 year | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | blow | in blow's thirteenth year; now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | blow not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | blow not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | support | infinitive | blow not said here | blow's poor father | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | blow's poor father | without resources; of any kind | tree rules |
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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