Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 29
The monarch accorded Sun a hearty welcome, saying, “It has been a very long time since I have had the pleasure of having you come to see me.”
Who acts: monarch, pleasure, you · What happens: accord, say, be, have, come, see · To what, where: hearty welcome, Sun, long time, pleasure, monarch · 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 (monarch, pleasure, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monarch | det |
| 2 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accorded | nsubj |
| 3 | accorded | accord | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accorded | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 welcome | det |
| 6 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 welcome | compound |
| 7 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accorded | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 accorded | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 time | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 time | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | obl |
| 19 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | aux |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pleasure | det |
| 24 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 having | mark |
| 26 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 pleasure | acl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 having | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 come | advcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accorded | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 accorded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | past | the monarch | a hearty welcome | Sun | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent sun=Goal welcome=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the monarch not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | monarch | a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present · perfect | the monarch = monarch | the pleasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | gerund | the pleasure not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the monarch = monarch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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