Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 65
“Perhaps it is not possible for him to communicate with you,” said the child in order to console the old man.
Who acts: it, friend, old man · What happens: not be, communicate, say · To what, where: child, console · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (it, friend, old man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 possible | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 possible | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 possible | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 possible | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 possible | advmod |
| 6 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 communicate | mark |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 communicate | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 communicate | mark |
| 10 | communicate | communicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 possible | csubj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 communicate | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 possible | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 possible | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 console | case |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 console | mark |
| 21 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 child | nmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | it | perhaps, possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | communicate in a quote | to-infinitive | friend | with you | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | the child | console | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent child=Theme in console=Manner |
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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