Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 122
“But, I think,” rejoined Cheng-Si, who had regained her composure, “that you are wrong to be so alarmed at this dream.
Who acts: dream, Cheng, you · What happens: think, rejoin, regain, be, alarm · To what, where: Cheng, composure, dream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, Cheng, you), 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 rejoined | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 think | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rejoined | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 8 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rejoined | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Si | punct |
| 11 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cheng | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 regained | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 regained | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 regained | aux |
| 15 | regained | regain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Cheng | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 composure | nmod:poss |
| 17 | composure | composure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 regained | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wrong | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 wrong | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 wrong | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 wrong | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wrong | cop |
| 23 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rejoined | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 alarmed | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 alarmed | advmod |
| 27 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 wrong | advcl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 dream | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 dream | det |
| 30 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 alarmed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rejoined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | a dream = dream | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rejoin | past | Cheng | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | regain | past · perfect | Cheng | Cheng's composure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent composure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | alarm in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | this dream | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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