Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 100
“My mother is very old and feeble, we have nothing to fear from her.”
Who acts: mother, we · What happens: be, have, fear · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, we), 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 | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feeble | cc |
| 8 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 old | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fear | mark |
| 14 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nothing | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fear | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | My mother | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | My mother not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fear in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | nothing not said here | from mother | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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