Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 164
“Give up your melancholy ideas,” remonstrated San-Syeng.
What happens: give up, remonstrate · To what, where: melancholy ideas, San · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 remonstrated | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Give | compound:prt |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ideas | nmod:poss |
| 5 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ideas | compound |
| 6 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 9 | remonstrated | remonstrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 remonstrated | obj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 San | punct |
| 12 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 San | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remonstrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up in a quote | infinitive | your melancholy ideas | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source | |||||
| 2 | remonstrate | past | San | tree rules |
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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