Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 49
The people were talking and grumbling, but they did not dare openly to manifest their disapproval.
Who acts: people · What happens: talk, grumble, not dare, not manifest, disapprove · To what, where: disapproval
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 (people), 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grumbling | cc |
| 6 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 talking | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 dare | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dare | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dare | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dare | advmod |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 talking | parataxis |
| 13 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 12 dare | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 manifest | mark |
| 15 | manifest | manifest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dare | xcomp |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 disapproval | nmod:poss |
| 17 | disapproval | disapproval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 manifest | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | the people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grumble speech: other | gerund | the people not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not dare | past · do-support | people | openly property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not manifest | to-infinitive | people not said here | people's disapproval | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disapproval=Theme | ||||
| 5 | disapprove | people | nom disapproval «feeling 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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