Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 26
His daughter tried vainly to keep from weeping herself for she felt that her heart was broken.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: try, keep, weep, feel, break · To what, where: daughter, heart
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 (daughter), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 3 tried | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 weeping | mark |
| 8 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 keep | advcl |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 weeping | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 felt | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weeping | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 broken | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux:pass |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 felt | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Yen's daughter | vainly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Yen's daughter not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | Yen's daughter not said here | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | daughter | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | break | past · passive | daughter's heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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