Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 90
He had just heard one of the gamins ask one of his comrades.
Who acts: San, one · What happens: hear, ask · To what, where: one
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 (San, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gamins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gamins | det |
| 8 | gamins | gamin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 ask | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 comrades | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 13 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | San | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | one of the gamins | one of San's comrades | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
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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