Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 52
But of what avail are innocence and regret when a Prime Minister has rendered one undesirable in the eyes of the Monarch?
What happens: be, regret, render · To what, where: avail innocence, Prime Minister
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 innocence | compound |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 innocence | cop |
| 6 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 regret | cc |
| 8 | regret | regret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | conj |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 rendered | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Minister | det |
| 11 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 12 Minister | compound |
| 12 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rendered | aux |
| 14 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 regret | advcl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 rendered | obj |
| 16 | undesirable | undesirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eyes | det |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 undesirable | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Monarch | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Monarch | det |
| 22 | Monarch | Monarch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | avail innocence | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | regret | present | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | render | present · perfect · passive | a Prime Minister | one obj | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient one=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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