Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 85
“But how is it that you, a blind man, go out alone?
Who acts: evidence, blind man · What happens: be, man, go out · To what, where: evidence
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 (evidence, blind man), 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 | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 man | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 it | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 man | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 it | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | evidence | that you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | man in a quote | evidence | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go out in a quote | infinitive | a blind man | alone, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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