Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 174
I can remember his anxiety that day when I was a little late in coming home.
Who acts: I · What happens: remember, be, come · To what, where: anxiety
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 (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 | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | aux |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 anxiety | nmod:poss |
| 5 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obj |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 late | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 late | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 late | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 late | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remember | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 coming | mark |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 late | advcl |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | can | I | father's anxiety | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | a little obl:unmarked; late property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | I not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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