Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 64
I am very sorry that since my arrival at this island I have had no news of my old friend.”
Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, have, arrive · To what, where: news, island
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, my), 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 | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 arrival | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrival | nmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | aux |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sorry | ccomp |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 news | det |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 friend | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friend | amod |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 news | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | I | no news of my old friend | since my arrival at this island | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | |||
| 3 | arrive | my | this island | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place |
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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