Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 135
We shall find a way that will enable you to keep your promise.”
Who acts: We, way, you, your · What happens: find, enable, keep, promise · To what, where: way, you, promise
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 (We, way, you, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 enable | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 enable | aux |
| 8 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 enable | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 enable | xcomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 promise | nmod:poss |
| 13 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | We | a way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 2 | enable | future | a way | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | your promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | promise | your | nom promise «communication 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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