Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 161
Ki-Si replied: “We would like to cross the sea but having no boat and deprived of all resources, we are contemplating suicide.
Who acts: Ki, We · What happens: reply, like, cross, have, deprive, contemplate · To what, where: sea, boat, suicide · 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 (Ki, 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 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ki | conj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | aux |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cross | mark |
| 11 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 like | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cross | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 having | cc |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cross | advcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 having | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deprived | cc |
| 19 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 having | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 resources | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 resources | det |
| 22 | resources | resource | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 deprived | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 contemplating | punct |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 contemplating | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 contemplating | aux |
| 26 | contemplating | contemplate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | advcl |
| 27 | suicide | suicide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 contemplating | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Ki and Si | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | would | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cross not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | the sea | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | gerund | We not said here | no boat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | ||||
| 5 | deprive in a quote | past | We not said here | of all resources | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of resource=Theme | ||||
| 6 | contemplate in a quote | present · progressive | we | suicide | tree rules |
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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