Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 44
The innkeeper prostrated himself and, with his face to the floor, cried: “It is a supreme honor to be permitted to house Your Majesties.”
Who acts: innkeeper, face · What happens: prostrate, cry, be, permit · To what, where: innkeeper, supreme honor, house · 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 (innkeeper, face), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 innkeeper | det |
| 2 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prostrated | nsubj |
| 3 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 prostrated | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 face | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 face | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prostrated | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 honor | punct |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 honor | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 honor | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 honor | det |
| 20 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 honor | amod |
| 21 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 permitted | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 permitted | aux:pass |
| 24 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 honor | acl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 house | mark |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 permitted | obj |
| 27 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Majesties | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Majesties | majesty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 house | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 honor | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 honor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prostrate | past | the innkeeper | innkeeper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | innkeeper's face to the floor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | face | a supreme honor | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | permit in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | innkeeper's face to the floor not said here | house Your Majesties | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: house=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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