Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 163
“It is a real pleasure to be walking here alone with you.
What happens: be, walk · To what, where: real pleasure
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: 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 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pleasure | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleasure | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pleasure | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pleasure | amod |
| 6 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 walking | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 walking | aux |
| 9 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 pleasure | acl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 walking | advmod |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 walking | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 walking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a real pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk in a quote | to-infinitive · progressive | here | with you; alone property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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