Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 142
If Su-Rung catches up--and he will not wait long--I will tell him that I do not know in what direction you went.
Who acts: Su Rung, friend, I, you · What happens: catch up, not wait, tell, not know, go · To what, where: friend, direction · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Su Rung, friend, I, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 catches | mark |
| 2 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rung | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Su | punct |
| 4 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 catches | nsubj |
| 5 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wait | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 catches | compound:prt |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 catches | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wait | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wait | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wait | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wait | advmod |
| 12 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 wait | advmod |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wait | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tell | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 know | obj |
| 26 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 what | nsubj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 direction | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up a condition, not said to happen | present | Su Rung | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not wait | future | friend | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | future | I | friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not know | present · do-support | I | what direction obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | past | you | direction not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=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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