Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 198
One day when he was chatting with San-Syeng, the proprietor of the inn burst in upon them excitedly, saying: “There is great excitement in the streets.
Who acts: Mi, One day, saying · What happens: chat, burst, say, be · To what, where: great excitement, streets · 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 (Mi, One day, saying), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 chatting | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chatting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chatting | aux |
| 6 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 San | case |
| 8 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chatting | obl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Syeng | punct |
| 10 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 San | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proprietor | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 proprietor | det |
| 13 | proprietor | proprietor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 San | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 inn | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 inn | det |
| 16 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proprietor | nmod |
| 17 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 burst | obl |
| 21 | excitedly | excitedly | ADV | _ | 17 burst | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 excitement | csubj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 is | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 is | punct |
| 26 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 is | expl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 excitement | cop |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 excitement | amod |
| 29 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burst | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 streets | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 streets | det |
| 32 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 excitement | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | past · progressive | Mi | with San | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with san=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | burst | past | One day | in Ja; excitedly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | saying | great excitement | the streets | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/9/198/