Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 95
After they had exchanged a few words of greeting she said to San-Syeng:
Who acts: girl · What happens: exchange, say, word · To what, where: radiant, greeting, San · 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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 exchanged | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 exchanged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 exchanged | aux |
| 4 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 exchanged | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 greeting | case |
| 9 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 greeting | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 San | case |
| 13 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Syeng | punct |
| 15 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 San | flat |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 exchanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exchange | past · perfect · passive | radiant | a few words of greeting obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | greeting not said here | San | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greeting=Topic to san=Recipient | |||
| 3 | word | greeting | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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