Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 86
“How is it that you told me that the King’s son was dead and now they say that the city is in a state of siege?
Who acts: you, son, Ja, city · What happens: be, tell, say · To what, where: transcriber, Ja, state · 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 (you, son, Ja, city), 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 | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 it | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 dead | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 King | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | cop |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 told | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 say | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 say | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 say | nsubj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 state | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 state | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 state | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 state | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 state | det |
| 26 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 say | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 siege | case |
| 28 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 state | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | transcriber | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | you | Ja | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the King's son | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | Ja | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the city | a state | of siege | tree rules |
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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