Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 185
I shall have to abandon him, but I shall not live long anyway, I am sure of that, so perhaps I shall make way with myself.”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, abandon, not live, be, make · To what, where: father, way
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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 abandon | mark |
| 5 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 abandon | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 live | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 live | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 live | advmod |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 anyway | advmod |
| 14 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 12 live | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sure | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 sure | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sure | cop |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 live | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 sure | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 make | advmod |
| 23 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 26 make | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 make | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 live | conj |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 myself | case |
| 29 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 make | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | abandon | to-infinitive | I not said here | father | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme he=Source | ||||
| 3 | not live | shall | I | anyway property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | of that; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | shall | I | way | with myself; perhaps property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |
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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