Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 60
Heeding only the impulses of his noble heart, he resolved to discover some means to help the unfortunate young ruler.
Who acts: San · What happens: heed, resolve, discover, mean, help · To what, where: impulses, some, unfortunate young ruler
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 (San), 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 | Heeding | heed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 resolved | advcl |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 impulses | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 impulses | det |
| 4 | impulses | impulse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Heeding | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 impulses | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Heeding | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 resolved | nsubj |
| 11 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 means | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 discover | mark |
| 13 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 resolved | xcomp |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 discover | obj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 means | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ruler | det |
| 19 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ruler | amod |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ruler | amod |
| 21 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heed | gerund | San not said here | the impulses of San's noble heart | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impulse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | resolve | past | San | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | discover | to-infinitive | San not said here | some | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | the unfortunate young ruler | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Beneficiary |
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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