Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 107
The old lady, for it was she who was talking with Yeng-Si, uttered a deep sigh.
Who acts: Capital, old lady · What happens: talk, utter · To what, where: deep sigh
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Capital, old lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 talking | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 talking | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 talking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 talking | aux |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 talking | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 talking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 talking | aux |
| 11 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lady | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Yeng | case |
| 13 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 talking | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Si | punct |
| 15 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Yeng | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 17 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sigh | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sigh | amod |
| 20 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uttered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | Capital | with Yeng and Si; lady nsubj; the old lady nsubj | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with yeng=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the old lady | a deep sigh | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sigh=Topic |
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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