Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 22
When he was alone with Ki-Si, San-Syeng asked: “Would you like to join us in our fight against Ja-Jo-Mi?”
Who acts: sir, Ki Si, you, our · What happens: be, ask, like, join, fight · To what, where: us, fight · 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 (sir, Ki Si, you, our), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 alone | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 alone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alone | cop |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 asked | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Si | case |
| 6 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Si | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ki | punct |
| 8 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 San | punct |
| 10 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Si | conj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Syeng | punct |
| 12 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 San | flat |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 16 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 join | mark |
| 20 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 like | xcomp |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 join | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fight | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fight | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 join | obl |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 Jo | case |
| 26 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Jo | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ja | punct |
| 28 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 join | obl |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Mi | punct |
| 30 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Jo | conj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sir | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Ki Si and San | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | join not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | us | our fight | against Ja Jo and Mi | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||
| 5 | fight in a quote | our | nom fight «act transitive»: poss=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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