Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 125
They gave me some things to eat, as your hands can tell.
Who acts: alms, hands · What happens: give, eat, tell · To what, where: things, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (alms, hands), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 things | det |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 eat | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | alms = alm | some things | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | alms = alm not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | can | your hands | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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