Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 117
She begged his pardon for having treated him with so little respect.
Who acts: lack, man · What happens: beg, treat, pardon · To what, where: pardon, man
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lack, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begged | obj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 treated | mark |
| 6 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 treated | aux |
| 7 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 begged | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 treated | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 respect | case |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 little | advmod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 respect | amod |
| 12 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 treated | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | lack | man's pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | treat | gerund · perfect | lack not said here | man | with little respect | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with respect=Theme | |||
| 3 | pardon | man | nom pardon «act 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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