Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 162
But I do not want my gentle companion to follow me to the grave, while she, on the other hand, is bent upon dying with me.
Who acts: I, gentle companion · What happens: not want, follow, bend, die · To what, where: gentle companion, me, grave, disagreement
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 (I, gentle companion), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 want | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 companion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 companion | amod |
| 8 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 follow | mark |
| 10 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 follow | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 grave | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grave | det |
| 14 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 follow | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bent | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 bent | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hand | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hand | amod |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 she | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bent | aux:pass |
| 25 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 follow | advcl |
| 26 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 27 dying | mark |
| 27 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 bent | advcl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 dying | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | I | my gentle companion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | my gentle companion not said here | me | the grave | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to grave=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | bend | present · passive | disagreement | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | |||||
| 4 | die | gerund | with me | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/9/162/