Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 10

“Can it be that this poor woman is my husband’s mother?” she thought to herself.

Who acts: poor woman, impression, mother · What happens: be, think · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman, impression, mother), 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	_	13 mother	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 mother	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mother	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 mother	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 mother	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 woman	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 husband	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 husband	cop
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mother	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 husband	case
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 mother	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 herself	case
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 thought	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	this poor woman			's my husband; my nmod:poss	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	can	impression	my husband's mother			tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	my husband's mother		mother		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 10