Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 22
Finally, he struck his forehead with an exclamation of joy, crying: “I believe I have it.
Who acts: San, young girl · What happens: strike, cry, believe, have, exclaim · To what, where: forehead, joy · 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, young 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 6 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 exclamation | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 exclamation | det |
| 9 | exclamation | exclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclamation | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 struck | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | parataxis |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | San | San's forehead | with a exclamation of joy; finally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | San not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | believe in a quote | present | the young girl = girl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the young girl = girl | forehead | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | exclaim | joy | nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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