Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 69
Su-Rung said nothing further but it could readily be seen that he had not given up his project.
Who acts: Su, San · What happens: say, see, not give up, project · To what, where: nothing, party, San · 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 (Su, San), 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 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rung | punct |
| 3 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Su | conj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | further | further | ADV | _ | 5 nothing | advmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 10 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 12 seen | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 given | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 given | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 given | advmod |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 seen | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 given | compound:prt |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 project | nmod:poss |
| 20 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 given | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Su and Rung | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | party | readily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not give up | past · perfect · passive | San | San's project obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | project | San | nom project «act 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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