Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 102
His curiosity was aroused to the highest pitch, so he approached the youngster who had spoken, and asked,
Who acts: San, youngster · What happens: arouse, approach, speak, ask · To what, where: curiosity, youngster · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San, youngster), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 2 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aroused | aux:pass |
| 4 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 pitch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pitch | det |
| 7 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 pitch | amod |
| 8 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aroused | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 approached | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 approached | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 approached | nsubj |
| 12 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 aroused | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youngster | det |
| 14 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 approached | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 spoken | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoken | aux |
| 17 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 youngster | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 approached | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past · passive | San's curiosity | to the highest pitch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | San | the youngster | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youngster=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | the youngster | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | San not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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