Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 83
Not disheartened by his failure, however, he resolved to await more auspicious circumstances for the carrying out of his project.
Who acts: San · What happens: not dishearten, resolve, await, carry out, fail, project · To what, where: auspicious circumstances
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 disheartened | advmod |
| 2 | disheartened | dishearten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 failure | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 failure | nmod:poss |
| 5 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 disheartened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 resolved | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 resolved | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 resolved | nsubj |
| 10 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 disheartened | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 await | mark |
| 12 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 resolved | xcomp |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 auspicious | advmod |
| 14 | auspicious | auspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 circumstances | amod |
| 15 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 await | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 project | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 project | det |
| 18 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 project | nsubj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 project | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 project | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 project | nmod:poss |
| 22 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 circumstances | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disheartened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dishearten | participle | by San's failure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | resolve | past | San | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | await | to-infinitive | San not said here | auspicious circumstances | for San's project | tree rules | |||
| 4 | carry out | gerund | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | fail | San | nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | project | San | nom project «act 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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