Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 40
San-Syeng thought, “My first words must express all the love I feel, but my tongue is weak and incapable of it.
Who acts: San, first words, tongue, My · What happens: think, express, feel, be, word · To what, where: love · 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 (San, first words, tongue, My), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 express | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 express | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 express | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 express | aux |
| 11 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 love | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 love | det |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 express | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 feel | nsubj |
| 16 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 love | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weak | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 weak | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weak | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 weak | cop |
| 22 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 incapable | cc |
| 24 | incapable | incapable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weak | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 incapable | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | San | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | express in a quote | must | My first words | all love | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | San | all love not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | my tongue | incapable of incapable conj; weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | word in a quote | My | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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