Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 127
“Oh, where can my poor son be?”
Who acts: poor son · What happens: be
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 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 be | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 be | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 be | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 be | nsubj |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 be | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can in a quote | can | my poor son | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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