Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 162
“Perhaps, I may be a bit inquisitive, but I would be very much obliged to you if you would tell me where you obtained this ring?”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, oblige, tell, obtain · To what, where: I, you, me, ring · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 9 inquisitive | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 9 inquisitive | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perhaps | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 inquisitive | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 inquisitive | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 inquisitive | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inquisitive | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | inquisitive | inquisitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 obliged | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 obliged | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 obliged | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 obliged | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 obliged | aux:pass |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 obliged | advmod |
| 17 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 inquisitive | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 obliged | obl |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 inquisitive | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 obtained | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 obtained | nsubj |
| 27 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | ccomp |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 ring | det |
| 29 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 obtained | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 inquisitive | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 inquisitive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | may | I | a bit obl:unmarked; inquisitive, perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oblige in a quote | would · passive | I | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | obtain in a quote | past | you | this ring | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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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