Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 158
If you want to take me, I will go, but what will you give me in exchange for my life?”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: want, take, go, give · To what, where: me, exchange
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 (you, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 give | obj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 exchange | case |
| 19 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exchange | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | future | you | me | exchange for my life | what obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme |
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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