Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 40
As for Ki-Si, he had totally forgotten that only a short time before he had planned to take his own life.
Who acts: man · What happens: forget, plan, take · To what, where: own life
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 (man), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Ki | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 forgotten | obl |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Si | punct |
| 5 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ki | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ki | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgotten | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgotten | aux |
| 9 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 10 forgotten | advmod |
| 10 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 time | mark |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 time | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgotten | advcl |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 planned | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 planned | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 planned | aux |
| 19 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 forgotten | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 planned | xcomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 life | amod |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | man | as Ki and Si; totally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plan | past · perfect | man | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's own life | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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