Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 34
“No. I have not seen them since I was here last.”
Who acts: Rung · What happens: not see, be · To what, where: No.
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 (Rung), 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 | _ | 6 seen | punct |
| 2 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 6 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 seen | advmod |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | obj |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 here | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 here | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | cop |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 seen | advmod |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 here | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present · perfect · passive | No. | I nsubj; tears = tear obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Rung | here property | tree rules |
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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