Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 169
The young girl wished to detain her father, but to her sorrow her efforts were of no avail; the vision faded and she awoke in tears.
Who acts: young girl, efforts, vision, girl · What happens: wish, detain, be, fade, awake, sorrow · To what, where: father, tears
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 (young girl, efforts, vision, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 detain | mark |
| 6 | detain | detain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 detain | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 avail | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 avail | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sorrow | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 avail | obl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 avail | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 avail | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 avail | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 avail | det |
| 19 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wished | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 faded | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vision | det |
| 22 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 faded | nsubj |
| 23 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wished | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 awoke | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 awoke | nsubj |
| 26 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 faded | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 tears | case |
| 28 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 awoke | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the young girl | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | detain not said to happen | to-infinitive | the young girl not said here | girl's father | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl's efforts | of no avail; to girl's sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fade | past | the vision | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | awake | past | vision | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tear=Location | ||||
| 6 | sorrow | girl | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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