Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 13
This very moment, strange to say, Su-Rung was telling his brother, Su-Yeng, of a peculiar dream he had had the preceding night.
Who acts: moment, Su · What happens: say, tell, have, precede · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (moment, Su), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 moment | advmod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strange | punct |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 strange | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 telling | punct |
| 9 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 telling | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rung | punct |
| 11 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Su | conj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 telling | aux |
| 13 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 moment | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 telling | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Su | punct |
| 17 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yeng | punct |
| 19 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Su | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 dream | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dream | det |
| 23 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dream | compound |
| 24 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | aux |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 night | det |
| 29 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 night | amod |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | this moment not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | Su and Rung | Rung's brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past · perfect | this moment | night | of a peculiar dream; Rung nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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