Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 25
“Alas,” she said with a deep sigh, “this is the last time I shall have you so near me.”
Who acts: Alas, this · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: last time, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Alas, this), 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 | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 2 | Alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sigh | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sigh | det |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sigh | amod |
| 10 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 me | advmod |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Alas | woman nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the last time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | Alas = ala | you | with a deep sigh; near Alas = ala | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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