Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 143
My most ardent desire would be to die and become a butterfly so that I could hover about this adorable flower.”
Who acts: ardent desire, I, My · What happens: be, become, hover, desire · To what, where: butterfly
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 (ardent desire, I, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 desire | nmod:poss |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 ardent | advmod |
| 3 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 desire | amod |
| 4 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 die | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 die | mark |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 become | cc |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 die | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 butterfly | det |
| 12 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | xcomp |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 hover | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hover | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hover | aux |
| 17 | hover | hover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 die | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 flower | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 flower | det |
| 20 | adorable | adorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flower | amod |
| 21 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hover | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | My ardent desire | die property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | infinitive | My ardent desire not said here | a butterfly | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hover | could | I | about this adorable flower | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about flower=Location | ||||
| 4 | desire | My | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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