Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 16
“I shall have my answer for this young man to-morrow.”
Who acts: young girl, my · What happens: have, answer · To what, where: answer
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 (young girl, my), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 answer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 morrow | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | the young girl = girl | my answer | for this young man to morrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | |||
| 2 | answer in a quote | my | nom answer «communication 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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