Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 86
But she said to herself that if he could so easily detect love and the loveable in Nature, his soul could not be entirely immune to the sentiment itself.
Who acts: Cheng, insect, soul · What happens: say, detect, not be · To what, where: Cheng, love · 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 (Cheng, insect, soul), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 herself | case |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 detect | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 detect | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 detect | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 detect | aux |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 detect | advmod |
| 11 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 12 detect | advmod |
| 12 | detect | detect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 detect | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 loveable | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 loveable | det |
| 16 | loveable | loveable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 love | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Nature | case |
| 18 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 loveable | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 immune | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 soul | nmod:poss |
| 21 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 immune | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 immune | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 immune | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 immune | cop |
| 25 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 26 immune | advmod |
| 26 | immune | immune | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 detect | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 sentiment | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sentiment | det |
| 29 | sentiment | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 immune | obl |
| 30 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 29 sentiment | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cheng | Cheng | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | detect | could | insect | love | easily property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not is | could | insect's soul | to the sentiment soul; entirely, immune property | tree rules |
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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