Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 180
She then demanded, in exchange, the paper bearing her father’s signature, thanked him for having saved Sun-Yen’s life, and asked him to continue his prayers for the blind man.
Who acts: hand, paper, father · What happens: demand, bear, thank, have, save, ask · To what, where: exchange, signature, father, life, prayers
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 (hand, paper, father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 demanded | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 demanded | advmod |
| 3 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 exchange | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 exchange | case |
| 6 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 demanded | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 paper | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 paper | det |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exchange | appos |
| 10 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 paper | acl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 signature | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | signature | signature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bearing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thanked | punct |
| 16 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 demanded | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thanked | obj |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 having | mark |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 thanked | advcl |
| 20 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 having | xcomp |
| 21 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Yen | punct |
| 23 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sun | conj |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Sun | case |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saved | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 asked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 asked | cc |
| 28 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 demanded | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 asked | iobj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 continue | mark |
| 31 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 asked | xcomp |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 33 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 continue | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 man | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 36 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 continue | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | hand | exchange | then | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exchange=Precondition | |||
| 2 | bear | gerund | the paper not said here | hand's father's signature | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signature=Patient | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | hand not said here | father | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | hand not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | save | participle | hand not said here | Sun and Yen's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | hand not said here | father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | continue not said to happen | to-infinitive | hand not said here | father's prayers | for the blind man | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | |||
| 8 | sign | hand's father | nom signature «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | pray | father | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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