Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 70
“I am laughing when I think that life is nothing more than a long mockery of bitterness and sorrow and lasts so briefly after all.
Who acts: I, life · What happens: laugh, think, be, last, mock · To what, where: nothing, bitterness · 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 (I, life), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 laughing | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughing | aux |
| 4 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 think | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughing | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 nothing | mark |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nothing | cop |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 think | ccomp |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 nothing | amod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 mockery | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mockery | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mockery | amod |
| 16 | mockery | mockery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bitterness | case |
| 18 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mockery | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sorrow | cc |
| 20 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bitterness | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lasts | cc |
| 22 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | conj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 briefly | advmod |
| 24 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 22 lasts | advmod |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 lasts | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | present · progressive | I | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | life | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | last in a quote | present | I not said here | after all | briefly property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | mock in a quote | bitterness and sorrow | nom mockery «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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