Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 31
“You are interpreting the last words of my dear father for your own ends and in your own interests.
Who acts: You, your · What happens: interpret, word, interest · To what, where: last words, dear father
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 (You, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 interpreting | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 interpreting | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 interpreting | aux |
| 4 | interpreting | interpret | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 interpreting | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 father | amod |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 ends | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ends | amod |
| 15 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 interpreting | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 interests | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 interests | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 interests | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 interests | amod |
| 20 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ends | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 interpreting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interpret in a quote | present · progressive | You | the last words of my dear father | for your own ends and your own interests | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 2 | word in a quote | my dear father | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | interest in a quote | your | nom interest «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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