Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 153
I have dug a lake in my garden to attract the swans, but in vain are my labors.
Who acts: I · What happens: dig, attract, be · To what, where: lake, garden, swans, vain labors
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 dug | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | aux |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 garden | nmod:poss |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 attract | mark |
| 10 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dug | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swans | det |
| 12 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 attract | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 labors | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 labors | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 labors | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 labors | amod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 labors | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 labors | nmod:poss |
| 19 | labors | labor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dug | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present · perfect | I | a lake | my garden | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lake=Theme in garden=Location | |||
| 2 | attract | to-infinitive | I not said here | the swans | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I not said here | my vain labors | my nmod:poss | 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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