Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 86
Having no desire to survive her husband, she plunged into the sea, crying, “In spite of you, I shall die with my husband.”
Who acts: murder, Su · What happens: have, survive, plunge, cry, die, spite · To what, where: desire, husband, sea, you · 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 (murder, Su), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 plunged | advcl |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 desire | det |
| 3 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 survive | mark |
| 5 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Having | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 survive | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 plunged | nsubj |
| 10 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plunged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 plunged | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 die | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 die | punct |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | _ | 19 spite | case |
| 19 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 die | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 spite | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spite | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 die | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 die | aux |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 plunged | parataxis |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 husband | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 die | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 die | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | murder not said here | no desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 2 | survive | to-infinitive | murder not said here | murder's husband | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme husband=Circumstance | ||||
| 3 | plunge | past | murder | the sea | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | murder not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | shall | Su and Rung = su | with my husband; in spite of you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in spite=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | spite in a quote | you | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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