Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 70

You made a sign to me and I imagined that you were inviting me to return this evening at ten o’clock.

Who acts: You, I, me · What happens: make, imagine, invite, return · To what, where: sign, me, ten o’clock

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, I, me), 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 imagined	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 imagined	nsubj
9	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 inviting	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 inviting	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 inviting	aux
13	inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 imagined	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 inviting	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 return	mark
16	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 inviting	xcomp
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 evening	det
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 o’clock	case
20	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 o’clock	nummod
21	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	You	a sign	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
2	imagine	past	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	invite	past · progressive	you	me				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here			ten o’clock	evening	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 70