Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 21
“All powerful Prince,” he said, kneeling respectfully, “forgive me if I disturb you in your grief.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: say, kneel, forgive, disturb · To what, where: Prince, you, grief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 All | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kneeling | punct |
| 10 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 11 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 10 kneeling | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgive | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgive | punct |
| 14 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 kneeling | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forgive | obj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 disturb | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 disturb | nsubj |
| 18 | disturb | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgive | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 disturb | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 grief | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grief | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disturb | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kneel | gerund | Prince not said here | respectfully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | forgive in a quote | infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | disturb a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Prince | you | your grief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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