Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 125
This means that your people are determined to convey to you their good wishes, and the blood which trickles from the bottle signifies the royal purple with which you will be vested.”
Who acts: This, people, blood, you · What happens: mean, be, convey, trickle, signify, wish · To what, where: good wishes, you, bottle, royal purple · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, people, blood, you), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 determined | mark |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 people | nmod:poss |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 determined | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 determined | cop |
| 7 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 convey | mark |
| 9 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 determined | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 convey | obl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wishes | amod |
| 14 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 convey | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 signifies | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 signifies | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blood | det |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 signifies | nsubj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 trickles | nsubj |
| 20 | trickles | trickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 blood | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 bottle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bottle | det |
| 23 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trickles | obl |
| 24 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 purple | det |
| 26 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 purple | amod |
| 27 | purple | purple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 signifies | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 vested | obl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 vested | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 vested | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 vested | cop |
| 33 | vested | vested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 purple | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 signifies | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | This | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | your people | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | convey | to-infinitive | your people not said here | people's good wishes | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wish=Topic to you=Recipient | |||
| 4 | trickle | present | the blood | the bottle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from bottle=Source | ||||
| 5 | signify | present | the blood | the royal purple | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purple=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | future | you | with the royal purple; vested property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wish | people | 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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