Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 86
“I thank you from the bottom of my heart, but is it really necessary to spend so much on my account?”
Who acts: Sun, my · What happens: thank, be, spend, account · To what, where: you, bottom, account · 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: who acts (Sun, my), 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 | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thank | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 necessary | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 necessary | cc |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 necessary | cop |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 necessary | expl |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 necessary | advmod |
| 16 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thank | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 spend | mark |
| 18 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 necessary | csubj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 spend | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 account | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 account | nmod:poss |
| 23 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spend | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Sun and Yen = sun | you | the bottom of my heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Sun and Yen = sun not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spend in a quote | to-infinitive | on my account goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on account=Goal | |||||
| 4 | account in a quote | my | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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