Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 33
The reason I have come to see you to-day is because I have a very important revelation to make to you.
Who acts: I, reason · What happens: come, see, be, make · To what, where: reason, you
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 (I, reason), 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 reason | det |
| 2 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 reason | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | cop |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 revelation | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 important | advmod |
| 18 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 revelation | amod |
| 19 | revelation | revelation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 revelation | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | the reason not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | the reason | I nsubj; a important revelation obj; have property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the reason not said here | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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