Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 20
Before the guests separated, Sun-Yen asked for silence, and in a powerful voice pronounced the following words:
Who acts: guests, Sun · What happens: separate, ask, pronounce, follow · To what, where: following words, powerful voice
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 (guests, Sun), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 separated | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guests | det |
| 3 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 separated | nsubj |
| 4 | separated | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 separated | punct |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yen | punct |
| 8 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sun | conj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 silence | case |
| 11 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pronounced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pronounced | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 16 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pronounced | obl |
| 18 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 words | det |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 words | amod |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pronounced | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | past | the guests | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Sun and Yen | for silence | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pronounce | past | Sun and Yen not said here | the following words | a powerful voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in voice=Manner | |||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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