Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 41
“Sire,” continued Sun-Yen respectfully, “here lies the source of the whole trouble.
Who acts: Sire, source · What happens: continue, lie · To what, where: Sun
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, source), 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 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yen | punct |
| 8 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sun | conj |
| 9 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 5 continued | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lies | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lies | advmod |
| 13 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 source | det |
| 15 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trouble | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trouble | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 trouble | amod |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 source | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Sire | Sun and Yen | respectfully property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie in a quote | present | the source of the whole trouble | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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