Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 72
They are not worth bothering about at all.”
Who acts: children · What happens: not be, bother · To what, where: all
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 (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 worth | advmod |
| 4 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | bothering | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 worth | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 bothering | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 bothering | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | children = child | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bother | gerund | children = child not said here | all | about property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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