Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 103
He complimented her on her taste and good judgment and added: “How happy you must be!”
Who acts: San, you, girl · What happens: compliment, add, be, taste · To what, where: girl, taste · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San, you, girl), 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 | 2 complimented | nsubj |
| 2 | complimented | compliment | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 complimented | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 taste | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 taste | nmod:poss |
| 6 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 complimented | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 judgment | cc |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 judgment | amod |
| 9 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taste | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 added | cc |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 complimented | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 14 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 happy | advmod |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 complimented | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 be | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 happy | ccomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 complimented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compliment | past | San | girl | girl's taste and good judgment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | San not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | must | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | taste | girl | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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