Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 147
“If this young man,” she mused, “does not know Heaven nor Earth, it means he has lost his parents.
Who acts: girl, it, Heaven · What happens: muse, not know, mean, lose · To what, where: Heaven, parents · 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 (girl, it, Heaven), 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 | _ | 9 mused | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 man | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mused | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mused | nsubj |
| 9 | mused | muse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 means | csubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mused | conj |
| 15 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 Earth | cc |
| 17 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Heaven | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mused | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 means | ccomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 parents | nmod:poss |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lost | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muse | past | girl | this young man advcl | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | girl not said here | Heaven nor Earth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heaven=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | present · perfect | Heaven | Heaven's parents | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Eventuality |
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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