Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 77
“I have not sought to ensnare you.
Who acts: all · What happens: not seek, ensnare · To what, where: you
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 (all), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sought | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sought | advmod |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ensnare | mark |
| 7 | ensnare | ensnare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sought | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ensnare | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seek in a quote | present · perfect | all sir = all | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ensnare not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | all sir = all not said here | you | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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