Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 40
“No, sire, first of all you must pardon the familiarity with which I treated you.
Who acts: you, San · What happens: pardon, treat · To what, where: familiarity, you, sire
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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sire | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 all | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sire | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 pardon | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pardon | aux |
| 11 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 familiarity | det |
| 13 | familiarity | familiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pardon | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 treated | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 treated | nsubj |
| 17 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 familiarity | acl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 treated | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon in a quote | must | you | the familiarity | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent familiarity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat in a quote | past | San | you | with the familiarity | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with which=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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