Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 38
So great was his admiration that he could not find a single word to say.
Who acts: San · What happens: be, not find, say · To what, where: great admiration, single word · 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 great | advmod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 admiration | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 admiration | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 admiration | nmod:poss |
| 5 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 find | advmod |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 admiration | csubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 word | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 admiration | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | San's great admiration | San nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | could | San | a single word | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | San not said here | a single word not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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