Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 170
“I wish I could burn that forest and then my San-Syeng would have to take the mountain road, and I wish the plagued mountains were at the bottom of the sea,” cried the unhappy girl--“for I would be able to see my husband again.”
Who acts: unhappy girl, San, plagued mountains · What happens: wish, burn, have, take, plague, be · To what, where: mountain road, bottom, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (unhappy girl, San, plagued mountains), 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 burn | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 burn | aux |
| 6 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 forest | mark |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burn | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 have | advmod |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 San | nmod:poss |
| 12 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 have | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 San | punct |
| 14 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 San | flat |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 20 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 road | compound |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wish | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wish | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 wish | nsubj |
| 25 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountains | det |
| 27 | plagued | plague | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 mountains | amod |
| 28 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bottom | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bottom | cop |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 bottom | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bottom | det |
| 32 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wish | ccomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 sea | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sea | det |
| 35 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bottom | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 cried | punct |
| 38 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 girl | det |
| 40 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 girl | amod |
| 41 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cried | obj |
| 42 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 48 able | punct |
| 43 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 able | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 48 able | mark |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 able | nsubj |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 able | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 able | cop |
| 48 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cried | conj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 see | mark |
| 50 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 able | xcomp |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 husband | nmod:poss |
| 52 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 see | obj |
| 53 | again | again | ADV | _ | 50 see | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | the unhappy girl = girl | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burn in a quote | could | the unhappy girl = girl | forest nsubj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | would | my San | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | my San not said here | the mountain road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | present | the unhappy girl = girl | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | plague in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | is in a quote | past | the plagued mountains | the bottom | of the sea | tree rules | |||
| 8 | cry speech: express | past | the unhappy girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is in a quote | would | the unhappy girl = girl | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the unhappy girl = girl not said here | my husband | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
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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