Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 140
“You are,” she said, “like me, very tired, but you are still young, consequently you are capable of enduring greater hardships than I. I am very old.
Who acts: You, lady · What happens: be, say, endure · To what, where: greater hardships · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, lady), 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 | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 are | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 me | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 me | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tired | punct |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 tired | advmod |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 me | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 young | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 young | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 young | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 young | cop |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 young | advmod |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 capable | punct |
| 22 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 25 capable | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 capable | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 capable | cop |
| 25 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 young | conj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 enduring | mark |
| 27 | enduring | endure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 capable | advcl |
| 28 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 hardships | amod |
| 29 | hardships | hardship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 enduring | obj |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 I. | case |
| 31 | I. | i. | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 enduring | obl |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 old | nsubj |
| 33 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 old | cop |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 old | advmod |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 young | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | You | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | lady | me ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | still | young property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | capable, consequently property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | endure in a quote | gerund | you not said here | greater hardships | than I. | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hardship=Circumstance | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | lady | old property | tree rules |
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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