Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 144
I was just about to call you anyway and send you on an errand.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, send · To what, where: you, errand
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 about | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 call | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 call | mark |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 6 call | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 send | cc |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 send | iobj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 errand | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 errand | det |
| 14 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | you obj; about, anyway, call property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | present | I not said here | you | a errand | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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