Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 173
“Sire,” replied Sun-Yen, “May I have permission to reflect upon this matter for a few days before giving you my opinion?”
Who acts: Sire, my · What happens: reply, have, reflect, give, opine · To what, where: Sun, permission, opinion, you · 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 (Sire, my), 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 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yen | punct |
| 8 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sun | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 reflect | mark |
| 16 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 permission | acl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 matter | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reflect | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 days | det |
| 22 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 days | amod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reflect | obl |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 giving | mark |
| 25 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 reflect | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 giving | iobj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 28 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Sire | Sun and Yen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | may | Sire | permission | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reflect in a quote | to-infinitive | Sire not said here | permission not said here | day | upon this matter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | give in a quote | gerund | Sire not said here | my opinion | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient opinion=Theme | |||
| 5 | opine in a quote | my | nom opinion «cognition 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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