Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 63
“It has been three years since I have seen my father, and in all that time I have had no word of him.
Who acts: San · What happens: be, see, have, word · To what, where: mission, word, General
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 (San), 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 | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 4 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seen | advcl |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 been | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 seen | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 time | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | aux |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 seen | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 word | det |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 word | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | participle | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect · passive | mission | I nsubj; my father obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present · perfect | San | no word of General | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||
| 4 | word in a quote | General | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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