Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 2
The merchant told her that they were not going to set sail for three months.
Who acts: merchant, fears · What happens: tell, not go, set · To what, where: girl, sail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (merchant, fears), 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 | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 going | advmod |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 set | mark |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | xcomp |
| 12 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 months | case |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 months | nummod |
| 15 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the merchant | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not go | past · progressive | fears = fear | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | fears = fear not said here | sail | month | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result |
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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