Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 62
“Alas!” mourned Cheng-Si.
What happens: mourn · To what, where: Cheng
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 | _ | 5 mourned | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 mourned | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mourned | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cheng | punct |
| 8 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cheng | flat |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | Cheng | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheng=Stimulus |
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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