Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 15
“It signifies that your end is near and that you will die through the will of man,” asserted Su-Yeng.
Who acts: kettle, end, you · What happens: signify, be, die, assert · To what, where: Su · 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 (kettle, end, you), 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 | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 signifies | nsubj |
| 3 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 near | mark |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 end | nmod:poss |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 near | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 near | cop |
| 8 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 signifies | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 die | cc |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 die | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 die | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 die | aux |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 near | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | aux |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
| 21 | asserted | assert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 signifies | conj |
| 22 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 asserted | obj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Yeng | punct |
| 24 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Su | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 signifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify in a quote | present | kettle | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | your end | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | future | you | through the man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | assert | past | kettle not said here | Su and Yeng | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent su=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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