Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 83
Nevertheless, he did not insist but gave his consent for San-Syeng to travel alone on a journey that would consume perhaps two years.
Who acts: son, journey · What happens: not insist, give, travel, consume, consent · To what, where: consent, journey
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 (son, journey), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 6 insist | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 insist | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 insist | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 insist | advmod |
| 6 | insist | insist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 insist | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 consent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 San | case |
| 12 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Syeng | punct |
| 14 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 San | flat |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 travel | mark |
| 16 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gave | advcl |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 travel | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 journey | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 journey | det |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 travel | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 consume | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 consume | aux |
| 23 | consume | consume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 journey | acl:relcl |
| 24 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 25 two | advmod |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 years | nummod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 consume | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 insist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not insist speech: other | past · do-support | son | nevertheless property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | son not said here | son's consent | for San | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent consent=Theme for san=Asset | |||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | son not said here | a journey | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on journey=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | consume | would | a journey | year | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | consent | son | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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