Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 14
“Yes, that was the name I gave him and I personally inscribed the name of San-Syeng on my baby’s arm in characters that could not be removed.
Who acts: that, woman · What happens: be, give, inscribe, not remove, name · To what, where: name, Si, arm, characters, San
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, woman), 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 gave | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 name | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 name | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 inscribed | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 inscribed | nsubj |
| 13 | personally | personally | ADV | _ | 14 inscribed | advmod |
| 14 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inscribed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 San | case |
| 18 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 name | nmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Syeng | punct |
| 20 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 San | flat |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 arm | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 baby | nmod:poss |
| 23 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 arm | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 baby | case |
| 25 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inscribed | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 characters | case |
| 27 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 inscribed | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 removed | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 removed | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 removed | aux:pass |
| 32 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 characters | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | that | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | woman | Si | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inscribe in a quote | past | woman | the name of San | my baby's arm | in characters; personally property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme on arm=Destination | ||
| 4 | not remove in a quote | could · passive | characters | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | name in a quote | San | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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