Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 27
“Dearest wife, can it be true that you are going to leave me?
Who acts: Dearest wife, you · What happens: be, go, leave · To what, where: Sun
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 (Dearest wife, you), 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 | _ | 8 true | punct |
| 2 | Dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 true | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 true | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 true | cop |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 true | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can | Dearest wife | sorrow nsubj; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Sun and tones of deepest sorrow = sun | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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