Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 139
“How comes it that you are sleeping here on this road?”
Who acts: you · What happens: come, sleep · To what, where: traveler, road
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 (you), 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 | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comes | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sleeping | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sleeping | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sleeping | aux |
| 8 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comes | advcl |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sleeping | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleeping | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | traveler | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | present · progressive | you | this road; here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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