Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 61
To obtain revenge they could find nothing better to do than to taunt him about having no parents.
Who acts: Su · What happens: obtain, find, do, taunt, have · To what, where: revenge, nothing, Rung, parents
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 (Su), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 obtain | mark |
| 2 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 find | advcl |
| 3 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obtain | obj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 nothing | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 better | acl |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 taunt | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 taunt | mark |
| 13 | taunt | taunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taunt | obj |
| 15 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 16 having | mark |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 taunt | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 parents | det |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 having | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | to-infinitive | Su not said here | revenge | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset revenge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | could | Su | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | taunt | to-infinitive | Rung | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have | gerund | no parents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=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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