Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 54
It must be said that the little fellow gave him abundant cause for satisfaction.
Who acts: little fellow · What happens: say, give · To what, where: pleased, abundant cause, murderer · 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 (little fellow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 gave | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fellow | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fellow | amod |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cause | amod |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 satisfaction | case |
| 14 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | must · passive | pleased | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the little fellow | abundant cause | murderer | for satisfaction | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cause=Theme for satisfaction=Asset |
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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