Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 91

That is how I came to fall into the lake from which I would never have come out alive without your assistance.

Who acts: That, I, your · What happens: be, come, fall, not come out, assist · To what, where: lake

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 (That, I, your), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 how	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 how	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 how	advcl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fall	mark
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 lake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lake	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 come	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 come	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 lake	acl:relcl
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 come	xcomp
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 assistance	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 assistance	nmod:poss
22	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 how	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	That		how property	tree rules
2	come	past	I			tree rules
3	fall	to-infinitive	I not said here		into the lake result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lake=Result
4	not come out	would · perfect	I	the lake	without your assistance; alive, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	assist		your			nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 91

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 91