Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 44
You can believe the words of your old servant whose devotion to your interests you are well aware of.”
Who acts: You, old servant, your · What happens: believe, be, word, devote, interest · To what, where: words, interests, old servant
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 (You, old servant, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | aux |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 believe | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 servant | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 servant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 servant | amod |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | nmod |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 servant | appos |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 interests | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 interests | nmod:poss |
| 14 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 words | nmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 aware | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 aware | cop |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 aware | advmod |
| 18 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 interests | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 aware | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | can | You | the words of your old servant | to your interests | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | your interests not said here | aware, well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | word | your old servant | to your interests | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient to=obl | |||||
| 4 | devote | your old servant | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | interest | your | nom interest «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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