Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 195
When we have saved up enough money I will pay back the price of the rice and then, once I am free, nothing can prevent me from remaining with you forever.”
Who acts: we, I, nothing · What happens: save up, pay back, be, prevent, remain · To what, where: enough money, price, me
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, I, nothing), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saved | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saved | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saved | aux |
| 4 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 pay | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 saved | compound:prt |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 money | amod |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saved | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pay | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pay | aux |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 pay | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 price | det |
| 13 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pay | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rice | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rice | det |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 price | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 then | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 pay | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 free | punct |
| 20 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 23 free | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 free | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 free | cop |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pay | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 prevent | punct |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 prevent | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 prevent | aux |
| 27 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 free | advcl |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 prevent | obj |
| 29 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 30 remaining | mark |
| 30 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 prevent | advcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 remaining | obl |
| 33 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 30 remaining | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pay | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save up | present · perfect | we | enough money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay back | future | I | the price of the rice | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prevent | can | nothing | me | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | remain | gerund | nothing not said here | with you; forever property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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