Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 149
Ceaselessly he thought of his father and his mother, both of whom had shown him such tender affection.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: think, show · To what, where: both
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 (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 | Ceaselessly | ceaselessly | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 father | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mother | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 father | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shown | punct |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 shown | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shown | aux |
| 15 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shown | obj |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 affection | amod |
| 18 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 affection | amod |
| 19 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Prince | of Prince's father and Prince's mother; ceaselessly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past · perfect · passive | both | whom nsubj:pass; Prince obj; such tender affection obj | 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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