Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 26
“I was about to do exactly as you suggest, sir,” said the agent, who, with a quickened step, went toward the group which by this time had increased materially.
Who acts: agent, you · What happens: be, do, suggest, say, quicken, go · To what, where: group · 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 (agent, you), 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 about | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 10 suggest | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 suggest | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 suggest | nsubj |
| 10 | suggest | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sir | punct |
| 12 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 about | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 agent | det |
| 17 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 step | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 step | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 step | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 step | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 step | det |
| 23 | quickened | quicken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 step | amod |
| 24 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 agent | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 27 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 29 group | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 group | det |
| 29 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 increased | obj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 increased | obl |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 increased | aux |
| 35 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 group | acl:relcl |
| 36 | materially | materially | ADV | _ | 35 increased | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the agent and a quickened step the agent and a quickened step the agent = agent | sir conj; about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the agent and a quickened step the agent and a quickened step the agent = agent not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest in a quote | present | you | exactly property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the agent and a quickened step the agent and a quickened step the agent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | quicken | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | go | past | the agent and a quickened step the agent and a quickened step the agent not said here | the group | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward group=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | increase | past · perfect | the group | time | materially property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer which=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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