Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 98
“I am well aware of what you are saying, but kindly listen to what I have to say.
Who acts: gentleman, you · What happens: be, say, listen, have · 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 (gentleman, you), 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 aware | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 aware | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 aware | advmod |
| 5 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 aware | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 saying | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | aux |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listen | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 listen | cc |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 14 listen | advmod |
| 14 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 aware | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 what | case |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 listen | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 say | mark |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | gentleman | what obl; aware, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | infinitive | gentleman not said here | what obl; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | gentleman | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | gentleman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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