Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 3
I know it is hard for you to give up your little one, but since you scarcely have any choice in the matter, you must resign yourself.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, be, give up, have, resign · To what, where: little one, choice, matter, yourself · 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, you), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hard | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | cop |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 give | compound:prt |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 one | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 resign | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 resign | cc |
| 16 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 resign | advcl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 choice | det |
| 21 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 matter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 choice | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 resign | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 resign | aux |
| 28 | resign | resign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | conj |
| 29 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 resign | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give up | to-infinitive | you | your little one | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Source | ||||
| 4 | have | present | you | any choice | the matter | scarcely property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | ||
| 5 | resign | must | you | yourself | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
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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