Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 31
Cheng-Si thanked the man profusely and went with him to the door.
Who acts: Cheng · What happens: thank, go · To what, where: man, door
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 (Cheng), 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 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cheng | flat |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | obj |
| 7 | profusely | profusely | ADV | _ | 4 thanked | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Cheng | the man | profusely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Cheng not said here | the door | with Yen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location |
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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