Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 41
Finally the trader grasped the girl by the arm and said in a trembling, gentle voice, “We must go now.”
Who acts: trader, We · What happens: grasp, say, go · To what, where: girl, trembling · 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 (trader, We), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 grasped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trader | det |
| 3 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grasped | nsubj |
| 4 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grasped | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 arm | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arm | det |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grasped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grasped | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 trembling | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trembling | det |
| 14 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 voice | punct |
| 16 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trembling | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 20 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | the trader | the girl | by the arm; finally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the trader not said here | a trembling and gentle voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | must | We | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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