Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 32
There, do you recognize my mother?” added San-Syeng, indicating Yeng-Si to the brigand with a gesture of his hand.
Who acts: you, hand · What happens: recognize, add, indicate, gesture · To what, where: mother, San, Yeng Si
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, hand), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 recognize | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognize | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognize | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 recognize | nsubj |
| 5 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 added | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recognize | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognize | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognize | punct |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Syeng | punct |
| 13 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 San | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 indicating | punct |
| 15 | indicating | indicate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 added | advcl |
| 16 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Si | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yeng | punct |
| 18 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 indicating | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 brigand | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brigand | det |
| 21 | brigand | brigand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 indicating | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 gesture | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 gesture | det |
| 24 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 indicating | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gesture | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | present · do-support | you | my mother | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | San | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent san=Patient | |||||
| 3 | indicate in a quote | gerund | Yeng Si | to the brigand; with a gesture of Si's hand | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot si=Topic | ||||
| 4 | gesture in a quote | Si's hand | nom gesture «act intransitive»: of=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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