Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 102
“It is customary in our country for parents to give their children in marriage, but we are orphans, so what shall we do to get married?”
Who acts: silence, we · What happens: be, give, do, marry · To what, where: customary, country, children, marriage, orphans
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, we), 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 customary | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 customary | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 customary | cop |
| 4 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 country | nmod:poss |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 customary | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 parents | case |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 country | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 customary | acl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 children | nmod:poss |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | iobj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 marriage | case |
| 15 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 orphans | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 orphans | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 orphans | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 orphans | cop |
| 20 | orphans | orphan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 do | advmod |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 do | obj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 customary | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 married | mark |
| 28 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 married | aux:pass |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 do | advcl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 married | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | silence | customary | our country for parents | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | words's children | marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | we | orphans | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | shall | we | customary | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | we not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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