Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 137
“Well, I would consider it a great favor if you would let me have your sandals in exchange for mine.”
Who acts: elder, you · What happens: consider, let, have · To what, where: haste, elder, sandals, exchange
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 (elder, 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 consider | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 consider | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 consider | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 consider | aux |
| 6 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 consider | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 favor | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 favor | amod |
| 10 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consider | obj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 consider | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 exchange | case |
| 20 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 mine | case |
| 22 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 exchange | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consider | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 consider | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider in a quote | would | the elder of the two = elder | haste | a great favor obj | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme favor=Attribute | |||
| 2 | let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | you | the elder of the two = elder | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | infinitive | the elder of the two = elder not said here | your sandals | exchange for mine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Patient |
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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