Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 42
“Brother,” replied Su-Yeng, “you would not listen to me and you have been punished.
Who acts: Brother, you · What happens: reply, not listen, punish · To what, where: Su, Brother, you · 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 (Brother, you), 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 Brother | punct |
| 2 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brother | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Brother | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yeng | punct |
| 8 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Su | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listen | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 listen | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 listen | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 listen | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 listen | advmod |
| 14 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 listen | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 punished | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 punished | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 punished | aux:pass |
| 21 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 listen | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Brother | Su and Yeng | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not listen in a quote | would | you | Brother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | punish in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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