Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 24
“Good friend, we have been showing hospitality not to a young man, but to the wife of my own lost son,” replied Yeng-Si.
Who acts: Good friend, Yeng · What happens: show, lose, reply · To what, where: hospitality · 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 (Good friend, Yeng), 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 | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 showing | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 showing | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 showing | aux |
| 8 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showing | obj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 man | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hospitality | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 replied | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 replied | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wife | det |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 replied | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 son | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 son | amod |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 son | amod |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 27 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 showing | parataxis |
| 28 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 replied | nsubj |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Si | punct |
| 30 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Yeng | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 showing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Good friend | hospitality | to a young man; we nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent hospitality=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Yeng | to the wife of my own lost son | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wife=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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