Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 70
I have just received the reports from the police and I did not see a single word on the subject of this affair, therefore, I am quite astounded.”
Who acts: I · What happens: receive, not see, astound · To what, where: reports, police, single word, subject, I
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 received | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 received | advmod |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reports | det |
| 6 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 received | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 police | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 police | det |
| 9 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reports | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 received | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 word | amod |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 subject | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 subject | det |
| 20 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 affair | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 affair | det |
| 23 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 subject | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 astounded | punct |
| 25 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 30 astounded | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 astounded | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 astounded | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 astounded | aux:pass |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 astounded | advmod |
| 30 | astounded | astound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 received | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present · perfect | I | the reports | the police | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent report=Theme from police=Source | |||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | I | a single word | the subject of this affair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | astound | present · passive | I | therefore property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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