Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 27
“You were right,” rejoined the sister, “but what motive impelled you to leave the town where you were living?”
Who acts: You, motive · What happens: be, rejoin, impel, leave, live · To what, where: sister, you, town · 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 (You, motive), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rejoined | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 7 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rejoined | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 impelled | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 impelled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 impelled | cc |
| 13 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 14 motive | det |
| 14 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 impelled | nsubj |
| 15 | impelled | impel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rejoined | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 impelled | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 leave | mark |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 impelled | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 living | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 living | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 living | aux |
| 24 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 town | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoined | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 rejoined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rejoin | past | the sister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | impel in a quote | past | what motive | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | what motive not said here | the town | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live in a quote | past · progressive | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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