Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 78
It was merely my love, my boundless love, which impelled me to act thus.
Who acts: fish, boundless love, my · What happens: be, impel, act, love · To what, where: love, me
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 (fish, boundless love, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | cop |
| 3 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 5 love | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 love | nmod:poss |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | amod |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 impelled | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 impelled | nsubj |
| 12 | impelled | impel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 love | acl:relcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 impelled | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 act | mark |
| 15 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impelled | advcl |
| 16 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 act | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fish | my love | my nmod:poss; my boundless love appos; merely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | impel | past | my boundless love | me | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | act | to-infinitive | my boundless love not said here | thus property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | love | my | nom love «feeling 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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