Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 30
“Sire,” replied Sun-Yen, “I rarely leave the comfort of my humble home.”
Who acts: Sire · What happens: reply, leave, comfort · To what, where: Sun, comfort, humble home · 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 (Sire), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yen | punct |
| 8 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sun | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | nsubj |
| 12 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 13 leave | advmod |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 comfort | det |
| 15 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leave | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 home | amod |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comfort | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | Sun and Yen | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sun=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | present | Sire | the comfort of my humble home | rarely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme | |||
| 3 | comfort in a quote | my humble home | nom comfort «state 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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