Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 154
San-Houni appeared before him saying, “You should take a boat and go to the southern cape of the island.
Who acts: San, You · What happens: appear, say, take, go · To what, where: boat, southern cape · 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 (San, 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 saying | mark |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saying | nsubj |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 appeared | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appeared | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boat | det |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 cape | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cape | det |
| 19 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cape | amod |
| 20 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cape | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | San | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | San | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | should | You | a boat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | the southern cape of the island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cape=Initial_Location |
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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