Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 4
What would become of the poor blind man, alone and without resources?
What happens: become
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 7 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 become | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 alone | punct |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 man | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 resources | cc |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 resources | case |
| 13 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 man | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | of the poor blind man and resources; What nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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