Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 43
You wished to make this woman your slave and she has escaped from your clutches in spite of your efforts.
Who acts: You, woman, your · What happens: wish, make, escape, clutch, spite · To what, where: slave, woman, clutches, efforts
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 (You, woman, your), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 slave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 escaped | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 escaped | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 escaped | aux |
| 12 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wished | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 clutches | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 clutches | nmod:poss |
| 15 | clutches | clutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 escaped | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 spite | case |
| 17 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 escaped | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 efforts | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spite | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | your slave | this woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset woman=Beneficiary slave=Product | |||
| 3 | escape | present · perfect | woman | your clutches | in spite of your efforts | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clutch=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | clutch | your | nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | spite | your efforts | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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