Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 201
He seemed to wish, through him, to cling longer to the life he was leaving.
Who acts: Mi · What happens: seem, wish, cling, leave
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 (Mi), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 him | punct |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cling | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cling | mark |
| 10 | cling | cling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | conj |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 cling | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 life | det |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cling | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leaving | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 leaving | aux |
| 17 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cling | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Mi | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | wish | to-infinitive | Mi not said here | through Mi | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | cling | to-infinitive | Mi not said here | to the life; long property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to life=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · progressive | Mi | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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