Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 45
“I thank you for this frankness,” rejoined the King, “but candidly I can hardly credit what you have just told me.
Who acts: Sire · What happens: thank, rejoin, tell · To what, where: you, King, Sire · 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 | _ | 10 rejoined | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rejoined | parataxis |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 frankness | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 frankness | det |
| 7 | frankness | frankness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thank | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 10 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rejoined | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 16 | candidly | candidly | ADV | _ | 25 told | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | aux |
| 19 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 25 told | advmod |
| 20 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 told | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | aux |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 told | advmod |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rejoined | advcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rejoined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Sire | you | for this frankness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for frankness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | rejoin | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can · perfect · passive | Sire | Sire | credit nsubj:pass; what obj; you nsubj:pass; candidly, hardly 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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