Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 21
After having seen your mother die, must I see you, too, leave the world before me?
Who acts: I, mother · What happens: see, die, leave · To what, where: you, world · 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 (I, mother), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 seen | mark |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 see | advcl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 die | nsubj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seen | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 too | punct |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund · perfect | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | your mother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | see | must | I | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | I not said here | the world | before me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent world=Theme before i=Location |
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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