Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 153
Yes, it is better to die,” mourned the young Prince so sadly that at his approach even the birds stopped singing.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, die, mourn, stop, sing, approach · To what, where: young Prince, approach
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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 better | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 better | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | csubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
| 10 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Prince | amod |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mourned | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 sadly | advmod |
| 15 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 23 stopped | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 stopped | mark |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 approach | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 approach | nmod:poss |
| 19 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stopped | obl |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 birds | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 birds | det |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 approach | nmod |
| 23 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mourned | advcl |
| 24 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 stopped | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | mourn in a quote | past | the young Prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stop in a quote | past | Prince's approach the birds | sadly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express in a quote | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | approach in a quote | Prince | nom approach «act intransitive»: 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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