Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 63
“Why, I have a father and it is not my fault if I lost my mother before I was able to know her.
Who acts: parents, scholar · What happens: have, not be, lose, be, know · To what, where: father, fault, mother
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 (parents, scholar), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lost | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fault | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fault | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fault | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fault | advmod |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fault | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 lost | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 able | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 able | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 able | cop |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lost | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 know | mark |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 know | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | no parents = parent | a father | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | scholar | my fault | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lose in a quote | past | no parents = parent | my mother | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | no parents = parent | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | no parents = parent not said here | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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