Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 154
I have planted a tree to serve as a refuge for the swallow, but the bird remains mute to my call while displeasing birds come a-flocking.
Who acts: I, bird, displeasing birds, my · What happens: plant, serve, remain, displease, come, call · To what, where: tree, flocking · 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 (I, bird, displeasing birds, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 planted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 planted | aux |
| 3 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 serve | mark |
| 7 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 planted | advcl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 refuge | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 refuge | det |
| 10 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serve | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 swallow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 swallow | det |
| 13 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 refuge | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remains | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 remains | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remains | nsubj |
| 18 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 planted | conj |
| 19 | mute | mute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remains | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 call | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 call | nmod:poss |
| 22 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remains | obl |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 24 | displeasing | displease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 birds | amod |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 remains | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 flocking | det |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 a | punct |
| 29 | flocking | flocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | present · perfect | I | a tree | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | I not said here | as a refuge for the swallow | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as refuge=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | the bird | to my call; mute property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | displease | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | come | present | displeasing birds | a flocking | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flocking=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | my | nom call «communication 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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