Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 15
I shall have a few words to say, and then if you persist in your intentions, we shall begin the war.”
Who acts: I, you, we, your · What happens: have, say, persist, begin, intend · To what, where: few words, intentions, war · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, we, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 words | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 begin | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 begin | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 begin | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 persist | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 persist | nsubj |
| 14 | persist | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 begin | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 intentions | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 intentions | nmod:poss |
| 17 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 persist | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 persist | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 begin | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 begin | aux |
| 21 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 war | det |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 begin | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | I | a few words | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | a few words not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | persist a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your intentions | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in intention=Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | shall | we | the war | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | intend | your | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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