Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 30
You have saved our lives and I will tell you the truth.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: save, tell · To what, where: lives, truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | aux |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lives | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saved | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | aux |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saved | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 truth | det |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present · perfect | You | our lives | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | the truth | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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