Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 110
It will be sufficient if you bind yourself in writing to pay me when you have the means to do so.”
Who acts: delivery, you, the · What happens: be, bind, pay, have, mean, do · To what, where: yourself, me
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delivery, you, the), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sufficient | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sufficient | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sufficient | cop |
| 4 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 bind | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bind | nsubj |
| 7 | bind | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sufficient | advcl |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 bind | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 writing | case |
| 10 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bind | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bind | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | iobj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 have | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pay | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 means | xcomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sufficient | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sufficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | delivery | sufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind a condition, not said to happen | present | you | yourself | in writing | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Destination in writing=Theme | |||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 4 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | the | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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