Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 38
When San-Syeng observed this he began to withdraw toward the door saying: “Sire, forgive my imprudence--excuse my impatience--.”
Who acts: San · What happens: observe, begin, withdraw, say, forgive, excuse · To what, where: this, door, Sire, imprudence, impatience · 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), 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 | 5 observed | advmod |
| 2 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 San | punct |
| 4 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 San | flat |
| 5 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 observed | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 withdraw | mark |
| 10 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 withdraw | obl |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 withdraw | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sire | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Sire | punct |
| 17 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saying | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgive | punct |
| 19 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 Sire | appos |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 imprudence | nmod:poss |
| 21 | imprudence | imprudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgive | obj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 excuse | punct |
| 23 | excuse | excuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 forgive | parataxis |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 impatience | nmod:poss |
| 25 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 excuse | obj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 excuse | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | San | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | San | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | withdraw | to-infinitive | San not said here | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | San not said here | Sire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sire=Topic | ||||
| 5 | forgive in a quote | infinitive | my imprudence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imprudence=Theme | |||||
| 6 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | my impatience | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impatience=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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