Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 150
I have decided to follow you wherever you may go and I shall never find the time wearisome so long as I am with you”--the mark of a dutiful wife.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: decide, follow, go, not find, mark · To what, where: you, time wearisome, dutiful wife
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. 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), 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 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | aux |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 follow | mark |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | obj |
| 7 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 go | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 follow | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 follow | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wearisome | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wearisome | compound |
| 18 | wearisome | wearisome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 find | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 am | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 am | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 long | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 am | obl |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 am | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 mark | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mark | det |
| 29 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 wife | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 wife | det |
| 32 | dutiful | dutiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wife | amod |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mark | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present · perfect | I | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | may | you | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not find | shall | I | the time wearisome | the mark of a dutiful wife obl; long property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wearisome=Topic | |||
| 5 | mark in a quote | a dutiful wife | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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