Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 103
“Pardon me, friend, would you tell me your name?
Who acts: you, your · What happens: pardon, tell, name · To what, where: San, name · 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 (you, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 2 | Pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Pardon | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pardon | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Pardon | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon in a quote | imperative | you not said here | San | friend vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | would | you | your name | San | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 3 | name in a quote | your | nom name «communication 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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