Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 57
However, when San-Syeng had finished speaking, Cheng-Si, with a sob in her voice, cried:
What happens: finish, speak, cry · To what, where: San, Cheng · 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 finished | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 finished | advmod |
| 4 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 San | punct |
| 6 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 San | flat |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | aux |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cried | advcl |
| 9 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 finished | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cheng | punct |
| 11 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 speaking | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Si | punct |
| 13 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cheng | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sob | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sob | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sob | det |
| 17 | sob | sob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speaking | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sob | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 finished | punct |
| 22 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | San | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Cheng and Si | with a sob in San's voice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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