Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 2
“This is my son,” proudly declared the nun’s former companion.
Who acts: This, former companion · What happens: be, declare · To what, where: son · 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 (This, former companion), 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 son | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declared | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 9 declared | advmod |
| 9 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nun | det |
| 11 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 companion | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 nun | case |
| 13 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 companion | amod |
| 14 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 declared | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | my son | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the nun's former companion | proudly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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