Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 74
“It is impossible for me to grant your wish for the present,” was the rejoinder, and the vision disappeared.
Who acts: San, impossible, vision, your · What happens: be, grant, disappear, wish · To what, where: wish, rejoinder · 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 (San, impossible, vision, 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 impossible | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 impossible | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impossible | cop |
| 4 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rejoinder | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 grant | mark |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 grant | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 grant | mark |
| 8 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impossible | csubj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grant | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 present | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 present | det |
| 13 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grant | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rejoinder | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rejoinder | det |
| 18 | rejoinder | rejoinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 disappeared | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 disappeared | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vision | det |
| 22 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disappeared | nsubj |
| 23 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rejoinder | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 rejoinder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | to-infinitive | San | your wish | for the present goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent wish=Theme for present=Goal | |||
| 3 | is a | past | impossible | the rejoinder | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | disappear | past | the vision | the rejoinder not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «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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