Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 142
I would like to pluck this blossom, but the branches which bear it are so high I cannot reach them.
Who acts: I, branches · What happens: like, pluck, bear, be, not reach · To what, where: blossom, branches
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, branches), 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 like | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pluck | mark |
| 5 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 blossom | det |
| 7 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pluck | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 high | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 branches | det |
| 11 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 high | nsubj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 bear | nsubj |
| 13 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 branches | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bear | obj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 high | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 like | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 reach | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 reach | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 reach | advmod |
| 21 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 high | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reach | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pluck not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | this blossom | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bear | present | the branches | blossom | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the branches | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not reach | can | I | branches = branch | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=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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