Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 1
His son, overcome by grief, uttered wild cries--“Oh, my father, my only refuge, why do you forsake me?
Who acts: son · What happens: overcome, utter, forsake · To what, where: son, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forsake | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
| 4 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 son | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 grief | case |
| 6 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overcome | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cries | punct |
| 8 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cries | amod |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cries | amod |
| 10 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 son | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 father | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 father | punct |
| 13 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 father | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oh | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 son | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 refuge | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 refuge | nmod:poss |
| 19 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 refuge | amod |
| 20 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 son | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forsake | punct |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 forsake | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 forsake | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 forsake | nsubj |
| 25 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 forsake | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 forsake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | participle | His son and uttered wild cries and my father and my only refuge not said here | by grief | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | forsake in a quote | present · do-support | His son and uttered wild cries and my father and my only refuge | me | you nsubj | tree rules |
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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