Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 161
She did not wish her death to be fruitless, so she placed my sandals on the shore, that it would appear as if I had committed suicide.
Who acts: woman, it, I · What happens: not wish, be, place, appear, commit, die · To what, where: death, sandals, shore, suicide
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 (woman, it, I), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 death | nmod:poss |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fruitless | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fruitless | cop |
| 9 | fruitless | fruitless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wish | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 placed | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placed | nsubj |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 placed | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shore | det |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appear | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 appear | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 appear | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 appear | aux |
| 23 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | conj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 committed | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 committed | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 committed | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 committed | aux |
| 28 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 appear | advcl |
| 29 | suicide | suicide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 committed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | woman | woman's death | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot death=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | woman not said here | fruitless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | place | past | woman | my sandals | the shore | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Theme on shore=Destination | |||
| 4 | appear | would | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | commit | past · perfect | I | suicide | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suicide=Theme | ||||
| 6 | die | woman | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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