Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 58
“Your mother,” replied Su-Rung, very much embarrassed by the question, “your mother died a short time after you were born.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: reply, embarrass, die, bear · To what, where: Su, 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 (mother), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mother | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mother | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rung | punct |
| 9 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Su | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 embarrassed | punct |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 embarrassed | advmod |
| 13 | embarrassed | embarrass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 question | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 question | det |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 embarrassed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 died | nsubj |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 embarrassed | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 23 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 died | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 28 born | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 born | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 born | aux:pass |
| 28 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 died | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Your mother | Su and Rung | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent su=Topic | ||||
| 2 | embarrass | participle | Your mother not said here | by the question | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | past | your mother | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | past · passive | you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «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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