Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 148
She wanted to follow him into the Valley of the Shadows; in fact, she would have preferred to have preceded him into the Darkness.
Who acts: Cheng · What happens: want, follow, prefer, precede · To what, where: husband, Valley, fact, Darkness
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 (Cheng), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 follow | mark |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 follow | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 Valley | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Valley | det |
| 8 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Shadows | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Shadows | det |
| 11 | Shadows | Shadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Valley | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 preferred | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fact | case |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 preferred | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fact | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 preferred | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 preferred | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 preferred | aux |
| 19 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 wanted | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 preceded | mark |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 preceded | aux |
| 22 | preceded | precede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 preferred | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 preceded | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 Darkness | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Darkness | det |
| 26 | Darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preceded | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Cheng | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cheng not said here | husband | the Valley of the Shadows | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into valley=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | prefer | would · perfect | Cheng | fact | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | precede not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | Cheng not said here | husband | the Darkness | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
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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