Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 25
“Why not carry them away then instead of leaving them there on the road?” continued Sun, in a tone of reproach.
What happens: not carry away, leave, continue, intonate · To what, where: Sun, road, tone, reproach · 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: 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 carry | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 carry | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 carry | advmod |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 continued | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 carry | advmod |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 leaving | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 carry | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leaving | obj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 leaving | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 18 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tone | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tone | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tone | det |
| 23 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 reproach | case |
| 25 | reproach | reproach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tone | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry away in a quote | infinitive | Sun | then | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave in a quote | gerund | Sun | the road; there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | Sun | a tone of reproach | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | intonate | reproach | nom tone «communication 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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