Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 177
“Father, I have found a way to get you the three hundred bags of rice that you owe the disciple.
Who acts: young girl, you · What happens: find, get, owe · To what, where: way, hundred bags, you, rice
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 (young girl, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 found | vocative |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bags | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bags | nummod |
| 15 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 get | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rice | case |
| 17 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bags | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 owe | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 owe | nsubj |
| 20 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rice | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 disciple | det |
| 22 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 owe | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect | the young girl = girl | a way | Father vocative | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | the young girl = girl not said here | the hundred bags of rice | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary bag=Theme | |||
| 3 | owe in a quote | present | you | rice | the disciple obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent that=Goal disciple=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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