Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 106
This reply hardly satisfied San-Syeng, but, believing that the child had been frightened, he did not pursue his questioning further but walked on.
Who acts: San · What happens: believe, frighten, not pursue, walk on, question · To what, where: child, questioning, reply · 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), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 San | advmod |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 San | amod |
| 5 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reply | nmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Syeng | punct |
| 7 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 San | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believing | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 believing | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believing | punct |
| 11 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 reply | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 frightened | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 frightened | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 frightened | aux:pass |
| 17 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pursue | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 frightened | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pursue | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pursue | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 pursue | advmod |
| 22 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 believing | ccomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 questioning | nmod:poss |
| 24 | questioning | questioning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pursue | obj |
| 25 | further | further | ADV | _ | 22 pursue | advmod |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 walked | cc |
| 27 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 believing | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 walked | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | frighten | past · perfect · passive | the child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not pursue | past · do-support | San | San's questioning | further property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent questioning=Theme | |||
| 4 | walk on | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | question | San | nom questioning «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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