Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 161
“I’ll accept the offer, but I have some partners and must consult with them, so I will not be able to give you a positive answer for a few days.”
Who acts: Cheng · What happens: accept, have, consult, not be, give · To what, where: offer, partners, positive answer, you
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 (Cheng), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 accept | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 accept | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 accept | aux |
| 4 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 offer | det |
| 6 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accept | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 accept | parataxis |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 partners | det |
| 12 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 consult | cc |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 consult | aux |
| 15 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 consult | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 able | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 able | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 able | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 able | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 able | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | cop |
| 24 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 accept | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | xcomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 answer | det |
| 29 | positive | positive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 answer | amod |
| 30 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 days | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 days | det |
| 33 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 days | amod |
| 34 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 give | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accept | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept in a quote | future | Cheng | the offer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Cheng | some partners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient | ||||
| 3 | consult in a quote | must | Cheng not said here | with partners = partner | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | future | Cheng | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Cheng not said here | a positive answer | you | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient answer=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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