Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 85
She was thinking of the many troubles that had made the young Prince esteem life so lightly.
Who acts: Cheng, many troubles · What happens: think, make · To what, where: young Prince esteem 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 (Cheng, many troubles), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 troubles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 troubles | det |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 troubles | amod |
| 7 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thinking | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 made | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 troubles | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 life | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 life | amod |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 life | compound |
| 14 | esteem | esteem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | compound |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 lightly | advmod |
| 17 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 3 thinking | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Cheng | of the many troubles; lightly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | the many troubles | the young Prince esteem life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
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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