Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 73
And to what purpose, since death gathers all of us under a common shroud and places us on an equality.
Who acts: death · What happens: gather · To what, where: all, common shroud
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 (death), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathers | punct |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 gathers | mark |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathers | nsubj |
| 8 | gathers | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | parataxis |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 gathers | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 all | nmod |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 shroud | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shroud | det |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shroud | amod |
| 15 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gathers | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 places | cc |
| 17 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shroud | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 places | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 equality | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 equality | det |
| 21 | equality | equality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 places | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present | death | all of us | a common shroud and places us on a equality | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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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