Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 57
I have searched in all the other rooms of the house and I ask your permission to do the same in yours.”
Who acts: I, permission, your · What happens: search, ask, do, permit · To what, where: other rooms, permission, same
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 (I, permission, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | aux |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rooms | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 rooms | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rooms | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rooms | amod |
| 8 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 searched | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rooms | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 permission | nmod:poss |
| 16 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 same | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 yours | case |
| 22 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | present · perfect | I | all other rooms of the house | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | I | your permission | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | your permission not said here | the same | in yours | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | permit | your | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=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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