Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 192
It is true that I have sold myself but I am not going very far away and perhaps I shall see you every day.
Who acts: crossing, I · What happens: be, sell, not go, see · To what, where: myself, 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 (crossing, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 sold | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sold | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sold | aux |
| 7 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 true | advcl |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 sold | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 going | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 going | advmod |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sold | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 see | cc |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 see | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | crossing | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sell | present · perfect | I | myself | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not go | present · progressive | I | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | shall | I | you | day | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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