Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 66
You have condescended to listen, you have not repulsed me, and this evening you have given me the greatest of pleasures by talking with me.”
Who acts: You · What happens: condescend, listen, not repulse, give, talk · To what, where: me, evening
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 condescended | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 condescended | aux |
| 3 | condescended | condescend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 condescended | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 repulsed | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 repulsed | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 repulsed | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 repulsed | advmod |
| 10 | repulsed | repulse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 condescended | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 repulsed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 given | cc |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 given | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 condescended | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 given | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 greatest | det |
| 21 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 given | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 pleasures | case |
| 23 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 greatest | nmod |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 talking | mark |
| 25 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 given | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 talking | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 condescended | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 condescended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condescend | present · perfect | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not repulse | present · perfect | you | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | give | present · perfect · passive | this evening | you nsubj; me obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | with me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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