Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 134
“I will wait until this young man awakes and speak with him.”
Who acts: San, young man · What happens: wait, awake, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San, young man), 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 wait | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 awakes | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awakes | nsubj |
| 9 | awakes | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 speak | cc |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 awakes | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 speak | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | future | San | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | awake in a quote | present | this young man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | this young man not said here | with son | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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