Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 129
When you did not come home I was a little worried and wanted to go and meet you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not come, be, want, go, meet · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 worried | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 worried | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 worried | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 come | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wanted | cc |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 worried | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wanted | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 meet | cc |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past · do-support | you | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | a little obl:unmarked; worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | past | I not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | meet | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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