Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 29
“Well, you may know that I am the man of whom you boast being the father.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: know, be, boast · To what, where: man, father · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 man | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 man | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 man | nmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 boast | nsubj |
| 15 | boast | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 father | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boast | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | may | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | King | the man | whom nmod | tree rules | |||
| 3 | boast speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the father | tree rules |
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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