Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 69
May I in turn ask why you did not reply to my note?
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: ask, not reply, note · To what, where: turn · 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 (I, you, my), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 turn | case |
| 4 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 reply | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 reply | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reply | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 reply | advmod |
| 10 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 note | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 note | nmod:poss |
| 13 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reply | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | may | I | turn | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not reply speech: assert | past · do-support | you | to my note | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to note=Theme | ||||
| 3 | note | my | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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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