Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 109
“Do you recognize this?” he shouted in rage, holding out the letter.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: recognize, shout, hold out · To what, where: this, rage, letter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King), 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 | _ | 4 recognize | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognize | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 recognize | nsubj |
| 4 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shouted | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 recognize | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognize | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognize | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 rage | case |
| 11 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 holding | punct |
| 13 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 shouted | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 holding | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 letter | det |
| 16 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holding | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize in a quote | present · do-support | you | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | King | rage | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hold out | gerund | King not said here | the letter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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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