Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 97
The lady made a disparaging remark which Sun-Yen overheard and to which he replied:
Who acts: lady, Sun, gentleman · What happens: make, disparage, overhear, reply · To what, where: disparaging remark
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 (lady, Sun, gentleman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 remark | det |
| 5 | disparaging | disparage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 remark | amod |
| 6 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 overheard | obj |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 overheard | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yen | punct |
| 10 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sun | conj |
| 11 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remark | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 replied | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 replied | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 overheard | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the lady | a disparaging remark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Product | ||||
| 2 | disparage | gerund | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | overhear | past | Sun and Yen | a disparaging remark | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | gentleman | which obl | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme |
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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