Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 22
The welfare of the people compels me to discuss with you certain things which I fain would defer to a more opportune moment.”
Who acts: welfare, I, certain things · What happens: compel, discuss, fain, defer · To what, where: me, certain things · 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 (welfare, I, certain things), 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 | 2 welfare | det |
| 2 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compels | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 welfare | nmod |
| 6 | compels | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 compels | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 discuss | mark |
| 9 | discuss | discuss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 compels | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 discuss | obl |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 defer | nsubj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fain | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fain | nsubj |
| 16 | fain | fain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 things | acl:relcl |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 defer | aux |
| 18 | defer | defer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 discuss | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 moment | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 moment | det |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 moment | advmod |
| 22 | opportune | opportune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moment | compound |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 defer | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 compels | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 compels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compel | present | the welfare of the people | me | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | discuss speech: other | to-infinitive | the welfare of the people not said here | with you | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fain | present | I | certain things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | defer | would | certain things | moment | vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V»: agent=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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