Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 102
Not that she experienced regret at leaving this life, but her last thoughts were of the blind father whom she had forsaken.
Who acts: girl, last thoughts · What happens: not experience, leave, be, forsake, think · To what, where: regret, life, blind father
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 (girl, last thoughts), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 experienced | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 experienced | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 experienced | nsubj |
| 4 | experienced | experience | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 experienced | obj |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 leaving | mark |
| 7 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 experienced | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 life | det |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaving | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 father | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 father | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thoughts | amod |
| 14 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 father | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 father | cop |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 father | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 father | det |
| 18 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 father | amod |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 experienced | parataxis |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 forsaken | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 forsaken | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 forsaken | aux |
| 23 | forsaken | forsake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 father | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 experienced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not experience | past | girl | regret | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer regret=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | girl not said here | this life | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl's last thoughts | of the blind father | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forsake | past · perfect | girl | the blind father | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think | girl | nom thought «cognition 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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