Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 140
I am walking in despair, seeking in vain for those who gave me birth.
Who acts: I · What happens: walk, seek, give · To what, where: despair, vain, birth, me
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 walking | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 walking | aux |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seeking | punct |
| 7 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walking | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vain | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seeking | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 vain | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present · progressive | I | despair | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | I not said here | vain for those | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | birth | me | who nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient birth=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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