Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 125
“Majesty, here is the blind man whose startling words I brought you.”
Who acts: Majesty, lady, blind man · What happens: be, startle, bring, word · To what, where: blind man, you
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 (Majesty, lady, blind 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Majesty | punct |
| 2 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Majesty | punct |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Majesty | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | startling | startle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 man | nmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Majesty | the blind man | the blind man's startling words nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | startle in a quote | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | past | the lady = lady | the blind man not said here | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 4 | word in a quote | the blind man | nom word «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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