Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 71
Like the flies that spend their lifetime in a single sun’s ray, we live but a moment.
Who acts: flies, we, single sun · What happens: spend, live, ray · To what, where: lifetime, ray
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 (flies, we, single sun), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 flies | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flies | det |
| 3 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 live | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 spend | nsubj |
| 5 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flies | acl:relcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lifetime | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spend | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ray | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sun | amod |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ray | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 13 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spend | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flies | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 live | nsubj |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 moment | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 live | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | the flies | flies's lifetime | a single sun's ray | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lifetime=Asset | |||
| 2 | live | present | we | like the flies | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ray | a single sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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