Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 27
It is with great regret that I remind you of this last wish of the deceased King, for I am aggravating your sorrow, I know.
Who acts: bed, I, deceased King, your · What happens: be, remind, decease, aggravate, know, wish · To what, where: great regret, you, sorrow
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 (bed, I, deceased King, your), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 regret | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 regret | cop |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 regret | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 regret | amod |
| 5 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 remind | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 remind | nsubj |
| 8 | remind | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 regret | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 remind | iobj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wish | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 wish | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wish | amod |
| 13 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remind | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 16 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 King | amod |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wish | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 aggravating | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 aggravating | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 aggravating | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 aggravating | aux |
| 22 | aggravating | aggravate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 remind | advcl |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 aggravating | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 know | nsubj |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 remind | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 regret | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bed | with great regret | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | present | I | great regret | you | of this last wish of the deceased King | tree rules | ||
| 3 | decease | participle | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | aggravate | present · progressive | I | your sorrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sorrow=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | wish | the deceased King | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | sorrow | your | nom sorrow «feeling 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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