Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 60
The young scholar was not long in distinguishing himself among his comrades who could not witness his success without a show of jealousy and hate.
Who acts: young scholar, distinguishing comrades · What happens: not be, not witness, show · To what, where: distinguishing comrades, success, jealousy
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 scholar, distinguishing comrades), 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 scholar | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scholar | amod |
| 3 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 long | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 comrades | case |
| 8 | distinguishing | distinguishing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 comrades | amod |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 comrades | nsubj |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 comrades | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 12 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 long | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 witness | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 witness | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 witness | advmod |
| 16 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comrades | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 success | nmod:poss |
| 18 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 witness | obj |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 show | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 show | det |
| 21 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 witness | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 jealousy | case |
| 23 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 show | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hate | cc |
| 25 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jealousy | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the young scholar | Rung's distinguishing comrades Rung | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not witness | could | Rung's distinguishing comrades Rung | Rung's success | without a show of jealousy and hate | tree rules | |||
| 3 | show | jealousy and hate | nom show «act 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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