Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 74
Su-Rung called the oarsmen and whispered aside to them, “Men, I want you to grab that fellow and his servant.
Who acts: I, Su · What happens: call, whisper, want, grab · To what, where: Su, Men, fellow · 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 (I, Su), 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 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rung | punct |
| 3 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Su | conj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oarsmen | det |
| 6 | oarsmen | oarsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whispered | cc |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 9 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 8 whispered | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 whispered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Men | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Men | punct |
| 14 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 whispered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Men | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 want | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 grab | mark |
| 20 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 want | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 fellow | det |
| 22 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grab | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 servant | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 servant | nmod:poss |
| 25 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fellow | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle · passive | Su and Rung | the oarsmen xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Men | Su | aside property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | I | Su | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grab not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Su not said here | that fellow and peril's servant | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=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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