Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 1
“I could not ask for anything better, but why can’t I take my little one along with me?”
Who acts: I · What happens: not ask, not take · To what, where: little one
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ask | advmod |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 anything | case |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 ask | obl |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 anything | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 take | advmod |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 take | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | advcl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 19 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | could | I | for anything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not take in a quote | can | I | my little one | with me; along property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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