Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 31
“And what is it that keeps you so close at home?”
What happens: be
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 | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 keeps | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keeps | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 keeps | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 close | advmod |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keeps | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 close | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | what nsubj; comfort nsubj; that nsubj; you obj; close, keep property | tree rules |
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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