Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 126
Yeng-Si, by way of reply, moaned:
What happens: moan · To what, where: Yeng
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: 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 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 moaned | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeng | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeng | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 reply | case |
| 8 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeng | punct |
| 10 | moaned | moan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 moaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moan | participle | Yeng | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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