Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 5
Despairing of being able to talk with the girl he loved, he resolved to write to her.
Who acts: San · What happens: despair, be, talk, love, resolve, write · To what, where: 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Despairing | despair | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 resolved | advcl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 able | case |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Despairing | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 talk | mark |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talk | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 girl | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Despairing | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 resolved | nsubj |
| 14 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 write | mark |
| 16 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 resolved | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 write | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despair | gerund | San not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | San not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | to-infinitive | San not said here | with the girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with girl=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | love | past | San | the girl not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | resolve | past | San | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | write | to-infinitive | San not said here | girl | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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