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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 121

He regarded himself as the happiest of mortals and promised to spare no effort to make life happy for the girl who had chosen him for her husband.

Who acts: San · What happens: regard, promise, spare, make, choose · To what, where: San, effort, life, girl

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), 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

nsubjobjcasedetoblcaseoblccconjmarkxcompdetobjmarkadvclobjxcompcasedetoblnsubj:passauxacl:relclobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootHePRONregardedVERBhimselfPRONasADPtheDEThappiestADJofADPmortalsNOUNandCCONJpromisedVERBtoPARTspareVERBnoDETeffortNOUNtoPARTmakeVERBlifeNOUNhappyADJforADPtheDETgirlNOUNwhoPRONhadAUXchosenVERBhimPRONforADPherPRONhusbandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 regardednsubj
2regardedregardVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes2 regardedobj
4asasADP_6 happiestcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 happiestdet
6happiesthappyADJDegree=Sup2 regardedobl
7ofofADP_8 mortalscase
8mortalsmortalNOUNNumber=Plur6 happiestobl
9andandCCONJ_10 promisedcc
10promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 regardedconj
11totoPART_12 sparemark
12sparespareVERBVerbForm=Inf10 promisedxcomp
13nonoDETPronType=Neg14 effortdet
14efforteffortNOUNNumber=Sing12 spareobj
15totoPART_16 makemark
16makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 spareadvcl
17lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing16 makeobj
18happyhappyADJDegree=Pos16 makexcomp
19forforADP_21 girlcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 girldet
21girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing18 happyobl
22whowhoPRONPronType=Rel24 chosennsubj:pass
23hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 chosenaux
24chosenchooseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 girlacl:relcl
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 chosenobj
26forforADP_28 husbandcase
27herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 husbandnmod:poss
28husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing24 chosenobl
29..PUNCT_2 regardedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1regardpastSanSanas the happiest of mortalsvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent himself=Theme as happy=Value
2promise speech: promisepastSan not said herevn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3spare not said to happento-infinitiveSan not said hereno effortvn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent effort=Asset
4maketo-infinitiveSan not said herelifehappy propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product
5choosepast · perfect · passivethe girlfor girl's husband; San objvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme

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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