Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 113
“I can never marry you because you are rich, while I am penniless.”
Who acts: San, you · What happens: not marry, be · To what, where: you
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 (San, 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 marry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 marry | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 marry | advmod |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | obj |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 rich | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 rich | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rich | cop |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 marry | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 penniless | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 penniless | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 penniless | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 penniless | cop |
| 15 | penniless | penniless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rich | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not marry in a quote | can | San | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | San | penniless property | 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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