Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 118
Listen, if you wish to escape you will never have an easier time than now.”
Who acts: you · What happens: listen, wish, escape, not have
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wish | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Listen | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 escape | mark |
| 7 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 escape | ccomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 now | case |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 have | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not have | future | you | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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