Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 50
She had but one way to keep Sun from starving and that was by begging.
Who acts: blow, that · What happens: have, keep, starve, beg · To what, where: one way, 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 (blow, that), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 way | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 way | nummod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 10 starving | mark |
| 10 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 keep | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 begging | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 begging | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 begging | aux |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 begging | mark |
| 15 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 starving | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | blow | one way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | blow not said here | Sun | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | starve | gerund | blow not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past · progressive | that | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: 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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