Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 28
San-Syeng, profoundly moved by this sight, cried to Cheng-Si: “In Heaven’s name, madame, tell me who you are!”
Who acts: San, Cheng, Heaven · What happens: move, cry, tell, be, name · To what, where: San, Cheng, name · 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, Cheng, Heaven), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Syeng | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 moved | punct |
| 5 | profoundly | profoundly | ADV | _ | 6 moved | advmod |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 San | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Cheng | case |
| 13 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Si | punct |
| 15 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Cheng | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 19 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Heaven | case |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 madame | punct |
| 23 | madame | madame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 name | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 name | punct |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 tell | ccomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 who | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 who | cop |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | participle | San not said here | by this sight; profoundly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by sight=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | San | Cheng and Si | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cheng=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | San not said here | San | Heaven's name and madame | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Cheng and Si = cheng | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | name in a quote | Heaven | nom name «communication 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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