Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 74
You have captured my heart without the slightest effort, like the fisherman who catches a fish that is surprised to see itself so easily taken.
Who acts: You, fisherman, fish · What happens: capture, catch, be, see, take · To what, where: heart, fish · 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 (You, fisherman, fish), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 captured | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 captured | aux |
| 3 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 captured | obj |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 effort | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 effort | det |
| 8 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 effort | amod |
| 9 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 captured | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fisherman | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 fisherman | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fisherman | det |
| 13 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 captured | parataxis |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 catches | nsubj |
| 15 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fish | det |
| 17 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catches | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 surprised | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 surprised | cop |
| 20 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fish | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 surprised | advcl |
| 23 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 easily | advmod |
| 25 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 26 taken | advmod |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | present · perfect | You | my heart | without the slightest effort; the fisherman parataxis | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | present | the fisherman | a fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a fish | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | a fish not said here | fish | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | participle | easily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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