Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 51
Not being successful, however, in learning anything about the matter he dismissed the entire subject from his mind.
Who acts: Rung · What happens: not be, learn, dismiss, mind · To what, where: anything, entire subject, mind
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 (Rung), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 successful | advmod |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 successful | cop |
| 3 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 successful | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 learning | punct |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 learning | mark |
| 8 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 successful | advcl |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 learning | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anything | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dismissed | nsubj |
| 14 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 matter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 subject | det |
| 16 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 subject | amod |
| 17 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dismissed | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 mind | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mind | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 subject | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 successful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | gerund | however, successful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | gerund | anything | about the matter | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dismiss | past | Rung | the entire subject | Rung's mind | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from mind=Source | |||
| 4 | mind | Rung | nom mind «cognition 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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