Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 159
“Can it be--yes, I imagine--her persistency in asking for my sandals--oh, blessed one!
Who acts: sight, persistency · What happens: be, ask
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 (sight, persistency), 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 | _ | 9 imagine | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 imagine | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 imagine | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 imagine | cop |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 imagine | punct |
| 6 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 imagine | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 imagine | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 imagine | nsubj |
| 9 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 persistency | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 persistency | nmod:poss |
| 12 | persistency | persistency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imagine | obl |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 asking | mark |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 persistency | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sandals | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asking | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 19 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 blessed | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 oh | punct |
| 21 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imagine | parataxis |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can | sight | woman's persistency obl; I nsubj; blessed one parataxis; imagine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | gerund | woman's persistency not said here | for my sandals | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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