Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 11
“I would gladly be informed upon that question, but how can we learn the opinion of all the Koreans?”
Who acts: we · What happens: inform, learn, opine · To what, where: I, opinion, Koreans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 6 informed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 informed | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 informed | aux |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 6 informed | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 informed | aux:pass |
| 6 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 question | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 question | det |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 informed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 learn | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 learn | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 learn | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 learn | nsubj |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 informed | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 opinion | det |
| 17 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 learn | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Koreans | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 Koreans | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Koreans | det |
| 21 | Koreans | Korean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 opinion | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other in a quote | would · passive | I | upon that question; gladly property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | learn in a quote | can | we | the opinion of all Koreans | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Topic | ||||
| 3 | opine in a quote | all Koreans | nom opinion «cognition 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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