Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 28
“Yes, he left me three years ago, to go to the Capital and since that day I have had no news of him.”
Who acts: son, King · What happens: leave, go, have · To what, where: King, Capital, news
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 (son, King), 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 left | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 left | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 left | iobj |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Capital | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Capital | det |
| 15 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 17 | since | since | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | aux |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 left | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 news | det |
| 24 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 news | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past | son | King | ago property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | son not said here | the Capital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to capital=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present · perfect | King | no news of son | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=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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