Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 132
Yeng-So-Yei who had been listening to the conversation could restrain herself no longer and cried:
Who acts: Yei · What happens: listen, restrain, cry · 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: who acts (Yei), 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 | 14 restrain | vocative |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeng | punct |
| 3 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 restrain | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yei | punct |
| 5 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 restrain | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 listening | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 listening | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 listening | aux |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Yei | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 conversation | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 conversation | det |
| 12 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 listening | obl |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 restrain | aux |
| 14 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 restrain | obj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 restrain | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 longer | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 restrain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · perfect · progressive | Yei | to the conversation | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | restrain | could | Yei | Yeng | Yeng vocative; long property | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer herself=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Yei not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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