Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 156
On hearing this name, Sun-Yen embraced the young man, crying, “Oh, son of my dearest friend, tell me quickly where your father is.”
Who acts: Sun, father · What happens: hear, embrace, cry, tell, be · To what, where: name, young man, Sun · 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 (Sun, father), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 embraced | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 embraced | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yen | punct |
| 8 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sun | conj |
| 9 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 embraced | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crying | punct |
| 14 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 embraced | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 17 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 19 son | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Oh | punct |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crying | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 friend | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 friend | amod |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 embraced | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 tell | advmod |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 is | advmod |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 is | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tell | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 embraced | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | Sun and Yen not said here | this name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | Sun and Yen | the young man | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | Sun and Yen not said here | son of my dearest friend conj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Sun and Yen not said here | Sun and Yen = sun | quickly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | your father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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