Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 149
He spoke of this to her but she replied with a great deal of cheerfulness, “Do not trouble yourself about me.
Who acts: Yen, wife · What happens: speak, reply, deal · To what, where: wife, cheerfulness · 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 (Yen, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 spoke | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | obl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 replied | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 deal | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deal | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deal | amod |
| 13 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cheerfulness | case |
| 15 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deal | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trouble | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 trouble | punct |
| 18 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 trouble | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 trouble | advmod |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deal | parataxis |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 trouble | nmod |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 trouble | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Yen | wife | of this | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | wife | with a great deal of cheerfulness trouble yourself about me | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with deal=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | deal | cheerfulness | nom deal «act 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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