Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 98
“Well, I predict, indeed I can read in your face, that your evil days will not last forever.
Who acts: disciple, evil days · What happens: predict, read, not last · To what, where: face · 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 (disciple, evil days), 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 | _ | 5 predict | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 predict | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 predict | nsubj |
| 5 | predict | predict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 read | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 read | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 read | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 read | aux |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 predict | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 read | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 last | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 last | mark |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 days | nmod:poss |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 last | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 last | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 last | advmod |
| 21 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 read | conj |
| 22 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 21 last | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 predict | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | predict in a quote | present | disciple | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | read in a quote | can | disciple | your face | indeed property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not last in a quote | future | your evil days | forever property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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