Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 138
This request puzzled Yeng-Si a great deal as she did not understand the purpose of the elder woman’s intentions.
Who acts: request, elder, intentions, elder woman · What happens: puzzle, not understand, purpose, intend · To what, where: great deal, purpose
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 (request, elder, intentions, elder woman), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 request | det |
| 2 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puzzled | nsubj |
| 3 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 puzzled | xcomp |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Si | punct |
| 6 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Yeng | flat |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puzzled | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 understand | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 understand | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 understand | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 understand | advmod |
| 14 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 puzzled | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 purpose | det |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 understand | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 intentions | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 intentions | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 22 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 purpose | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle | participle | this request | a great deal | Yeng xcomp | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus deal=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not understand | past · do-support | elder | the purpose of the elder woman's intentions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer purpose=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | purpose | the elder woman's intentions | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | intend | the elder woman | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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