Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 78
He groaned to himself, “This is certain death for me, and my poor little girl will hunt for me everywhere.”
Who acts: sun, This, poor little girl · What happens: groan, be, hunt · To what, where: sun, certain death · 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 (sun, This, poor little girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 groaned | nsubj |
| 2 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 himself | case |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 groaned | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 death | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 death | punct |
| 7 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 death | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 death | cop |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 death | amod |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 groaned | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 death | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hunt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hunt | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 girl | nmod:poss |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hunt | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hunt | aux |
| 20 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 groaned | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hunt | obl |
| 23 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 hunt | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hunt | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | sun | sun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | This | certain death | for Si | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hunt in a quote | future | my poor little girl | for Si; everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for i=Theme |
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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