Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 17
I have to plunge to the bottom of the Yellow Sea to pray for a favorable passage for our sailors.”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, plunge, pray · To what, where: bottom
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 plunge | mark |
| 4 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plunge | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sea | det |
| 10 | Yellow | Yellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sea | compound |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pray | mark |
| 13 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 plunge | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 passage | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 passage | det |
| 16 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 passage | amod |
| 17 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pray | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sailors | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sailors | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 passage | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | plunge | to-infinitive | I not said here | the bottom of the Yellow Sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pray | to-infinitive | I not said here | for a favorable passage for our sailors | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for passage=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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