Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 15

Alas, the child, whom she and her husband had been looking forward to with such great joy, would be abandoned just as if she were an unnatural mother.

Who acts: Yeng · What happens: look, abandon, be · To what, where: child, unnatural mother

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 (Yeng), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	23 abandoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 abandoned	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 looking	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looking	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 husband	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 she	conj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 looking	aux
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 child	conj
14	forward	forward	ADV	_	13 looking	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 joy	case
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 joy	case
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 joy	amod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 joy	amod
19	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 abandoned	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 abandoned	aux:pass
23	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 as	advmod
25	as	as	ADV	_	23 abandoned	advmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 mother	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 mother	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 mother	cop
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 mother	det
30	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mother	amod
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 abandoned	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 abandoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past · perfect · progressive	Yeng	the child	to such great joy; forward property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to joy=Theme
2	abandon	would · passive		the child		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	Yeng	a unnatural mother		tree rules

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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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 15