Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 20
“She made a sign to me,” he pondered, “but what meaning does this sign have?”
Who acts: girl, San · What happens: make, ponder, have · To what, where: sign, young girl · 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 (girl, San), 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 | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pondered | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pondered | nsubj |
| 11 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 what | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 have | obj |
| 16 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 what | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 sign | det |
| 19 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pondered | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | girl | a sign | the young girl = girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | |||
| 2 | ponder | past | San | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present · do-support | San not said here | this sign | what meaning obj | tree rules |
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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