Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 45
“You mean to say that it is my fault,” took up Su-Rung, angrily, “You are to blame yourself.
Who acts: You, misfortune · What happens: mean, say, be, take up, blame · To what, where: fault, Su, yourself · 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, misfortune), 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 | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | parataxis |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mean | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 fault | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fault | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fault | cop |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fault | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Rung | punct |
| 17 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Su | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 angrily | punct |
| 19 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 are | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 are | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 are | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 blame | mark |
| 25 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 are | xcomp |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 blame | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | You | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | misfortune | my fault | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take up | past | Su and Rung | angrily property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent su=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | does in a quote | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | blame in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | yourself | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
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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