Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 131
This man led me home and said to me, while we were walking along, ‘I predict to you that you will no longer be blind and that some day you will become the King’s Prime Minister.’
Who acts: man, we, I, you, day · What happens: lead, say, walk, predict, be, become · To what, where: me, you · 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 (man, we, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walking | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 walking | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 walking | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 walking | aux |
| 14 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 walking | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 predict | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 predict | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 predict | nsubj |
| 19 | predict | predict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 predict | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 blind | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 blind | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 blind | aux |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 longer | advmod |
| 26 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 blind | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 blind | cop |
| 28 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 predict | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 become | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 become | mark |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 become | nsubj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 become | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 become | aux |
| 35 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 blind | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Minister | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 King | case |
| 39 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 40 Minister | compound |
| 40 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 become | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | this man | me | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this man not said here | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | walk | past · progressive | we | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | predict | present | I | you | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | is | future | you | blind, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | become | future | some day | you nsubj; the King's Prime Minister xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/4/131/