Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 121
For the time being, he is not capable of following you for he is asleep and dead drunk, but there is not a minute to be lost.
Who acts: San · What happens: not be, follow, be, lose · To what, where: you, capable minute
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 capable | obl |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 time | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 capable | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 capable | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 capable | advmod |
| 9 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 minute | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 following | case |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 capable | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 following | obj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 asleep | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asleep | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 asleep | cop |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 following | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drunk | cc |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 drunk | amod |
| 19 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 asleep | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 is | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 minute | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 minute | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 minute | det |
| 26 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 lost | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 lost | aux:pass |
| 29 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 minute | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 minute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | San | time | capable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | San not said here | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | San | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | San not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not is a | present | a capable minute | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | lose | to-infinitive · passive | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
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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