Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 163
The old man accepted this responsible charge with a bow and a few well chosen words of gratitude.
Who acts: old man · What happens: accept, choose, word · To what, where: responsible charge, gratitude
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 (old 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | nsubj |
| 4 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 charge | det |
| 6 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 charge | amod |
| 7 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 bow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bow | det |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accepted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 words | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 words | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 chosen | advmod |
| 15 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bow | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gratitude | case |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 words | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the old man | this responsible charge | with a bow and a few chosen words of gratitude | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | |||
| 2 | choose | participle | well property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | word | gratitude | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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