Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 47
Then San-Syeng said wearily, as if he were just regaining consciousness, “Pardon me, mademoiselle, I am confused with all the trouble I am giving you.”
Who acts: San · What happens: say, regain, pardon, be, give · To what, where: consciousness, San, trouble, you · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 San | punct |
| 4 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 San | flat |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wearily | wearily | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 regaining | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 regaining | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 regaining | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 regaining | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 regaining | aux |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 regaining | advmod |
| 13 | regaining | regain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 14 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 regaining | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Pardon | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Pardon | punct |
| 17 | Pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 regaining | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Pardon | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mademoiselle | punct |
| 20 | mademoiselle | mademoiselle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Pardon | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 confused | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 confused | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 confused | cop |
| 24 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 trouble | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 trouble | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 trouble | det |
| 28 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 confused | obl |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 giving | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 giving | aux |
| 31 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 trouble | acl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 giving | iobj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 confused | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 confused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | San | then | wearily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | regain | past · progressive | San | consciousness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pardon in a quote | infinitive | San not said here | San | mademoiselle obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | San | with all trouble; confused property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present · progressive | San | all trouble not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «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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