Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 48
“You acted nobly,” she said, “but my intuition tells me that your devotion to the King will cost you dearly.”
Who acts: You, wife, intuition, devotion, my, your · What happens: act, say, tell, cost, intuit, devote · To what, where: wife, you · 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 (You, wife, intuition, devotion), 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 | _ | 3 acted | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 acted | nsubj |
| 3 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nobly | nobly | ADV | _ | 3 acted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 acted | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 acted | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tells | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tells | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 tells | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 intuition | nmod:poss |
| 13 | intuition | intuition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tells | nsubj |
| 14 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tells | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 cost | mark |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cost | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 King | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 devotion | nmod |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 cost | aux |
| 23 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tells | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 cost | iobj |
| 25 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 23 cost | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act in a quote | past | You | nobly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | my intuition | wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | cost in a quote | future | your devotion to the King | you | dearly property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value | |||
| 5 | intuit in a quote | my | nom intuition «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | devote in a quote | your | to the King | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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