Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 6
She sought to accumulate a little money and some food which would be enough for him to live on decently for some little time.
Who acts: thought, food, merchant · What happens: seek, accumulate, be, live · To what, where: little money
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 (thought, food, merchant), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 accumulate | mark |
| 4 | accumulate | accumulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sought | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 money | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 money | amod |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accumulate | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 enough | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 food | det |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enough | nsubj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 enough | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 enough | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 enough | cop |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sought | conj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 live | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 enough | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 decently | case |
| 20 | decently | decently | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 live | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 time | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 live | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | thought | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accumulate not said to happen | to-infinitive | thought not said here | a little money | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | would | some food | which nsubj; enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | merchant | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on decently=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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