Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 40
“It was here, my child, that seventeen years ago I gave birth to him who is now your husband.
Who acts: matter, that · What happens: be, give · To what, where: birth, child, husband · 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 (matter, that), 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 here | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 child | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 child | nmod:poss |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 here | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 gave | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | conj |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 husband | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 husband | cop |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 husband | advmod |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | matter | my child conj; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | that | birth | child | I nsubj; ago property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your husband | now | who nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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