Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 148
The young Prince, giving himself up to a bitter melancholy, could not take his thoughts from the memory of his parents.
Who acts: young Prince, Prince · What happens: give up, not take, think · To what, where: Prince, thoughts, memory
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 (young Prince, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 giving | punct |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Prince | acl |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 giving | iobj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 giving | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 melancholy | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 melancholy | det |
| 10 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 melancholy | amod |
| 11 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giving | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 take | advmod |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 memory | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 memory | det |
| 20 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 parents | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 parents | nmod:poss |
| 23 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 memory | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | gerund | the young Prince not said here | Prince | to a bitter melancholy | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to melancholy=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not take | could | the young Prince | Prince's thoughts | the memory of Prince's parents | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thought=Theme from memory=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | think | Prince | 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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