Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 121
“That’s my son’s name, sure enough,” said Yeng-Si, “but it cannot possibly be he for he is no thief.”
Who acts: That, Yeng, son · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: son · 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 (That, Yeng, son), 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 | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 son | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 son | case |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 sure | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | parataxis |
| 14 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Si | punct |
| 16 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yeng | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thief | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 thief | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 can | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 can | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 thief | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 he | advmod |
| 23 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 25 he | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 he | cop |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 can | nsubj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 thief | case |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thief | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 thief | cop |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 thief | det |
| 30 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Yeng | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | 's my son; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Yeng | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | infinitive | son | possibly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | can | son | for no thief | 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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