Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 71
“These boys are jealous of you and they invent these stories to anger you.
Who acts: boys, children, you · What happens: be, invent, anger · To what, where: stories
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 (boys, children, you), 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 | _ | 5 jealous | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 jealous | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 jealous | cop |
| 5 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 jealous | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 invent | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 invent | nsubj |
| 10 | invent | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 jealous | conj |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 stories | det |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 invent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 anger | mark |
| 14 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invent | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 anger | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this boys | of you; jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invent in a quote | present | children = child | this stories | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | ||||
| 3 | anger in a quote | you | tree rules |
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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