Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 148
If he wants to be transformed into a butterfly to flit around a flower, it means he loves a young girl.”
Who acts: Heaven, it · What happens: want, transform, flit, mean, love · To what, where: flower, young girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Heaven, it), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wants | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 means | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 transformed | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 transformed | aux:pass |
| 6 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 butterfly | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 butterfly | det |
| 9 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 transformed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 flit | mark |
| 11 | flit | flit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 transformed | advcl |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flower | det |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flit | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 means | nsubj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loves | nsubj |
| 19 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 means | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loves | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | Heaven | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | transform not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Heaven not said here | into a butterfly result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into butterfly=Result | ||||
| 3 | flit | to-infinitive | Heaven not said here | a flower | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around flower=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | love | present | Heaven | a young girl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
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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