Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 184
For the present, it was only a dream which Ja-Jo-Mi hoped to realize some day.
Who acts: present, Ja · What happens: be, hope, realize · To what, where: dream
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 (present, Ja), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 present | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 present | det |
| 3 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dream | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 present | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dream | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dream | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 dream | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dream | det |
| 9 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hoped | obj |
| 11 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hoped | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ja | punct |
| 13 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ja | flat |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Mi | punct |
| 15 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ja | conj |
| 16 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dream | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 realize | mark |
| 18 | realize | realize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hoped | xcomp |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 realize | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | present | a dream | for the present | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hope | past | Ja and Mi | a dream | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | realize not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ja and Mi not said here | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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