Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 31
He has probably kept the horse which I gave him when he left me and if I cannot recognize the husband, I will know my father’s horse.”
Who acts: horse, husband, I · What happens: keep, give, leave, not recognize, know · To what, where: husband, me, horse
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, husband, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 horse | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 left | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 left | iobj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 know | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 recognize | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 recognize | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognize | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 recognize | advmod |
| 20 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 know | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 husband | det |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recognize | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognize | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 left | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 horse | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 father | case |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 know | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · perfect · passive | husband | the horse obj; probably property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme horse=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the horse | husband | I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past | husband | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not recognize a condition, not said to happen | can | I | the husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | know | future | I | my father's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
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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