Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 4
“Do not thank me, sir,” replied the sister.
What happens: not thank, reply · To what, where: me, sister · 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: 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 | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 thank | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 thank | advmod |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 7 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thank | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sister | det |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not thank speech: thank in a quote | infinitive · do-support | me | sir vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the sister | 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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