Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 84
“I love this young man,” she said, “he is so intelligent and has such a splendid appearance.
Who acts: girl, man · What happens: love, say, be, have · To what, where: young man, splendid appearance · 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 (girl, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 love | nsubj |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 love | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 intelligent | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 intelligent | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 intelligent | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 intelligent | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 intelligent | advmod |
| 16 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 has | cc |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 intelligent | conj |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 appearance | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 appearance | det |
| 21 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 appearance | amod |
| 22 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | girl | this young man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | man | intelligent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | man not said here | such splendid appearance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |
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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