Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 149
Keep straight ahead until you come to a grove of bamboo where you might rest a few moments if you like, then keep on walking in the same direction until you come upon the temple of Buddha.
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, come, rest, like, walk · To what, where: grove, same direction, temple
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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 ahead | advmod |
| 3 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 grove | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 grove | det |
| 9 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bamboo | case |
| 11 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grove | nmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 rest | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 rest | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rest | aux |
| 15 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bamboo | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moments | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moments | amod |
| 18 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rest | obj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 like | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 like | nsubj |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rest | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 keep | advmod |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 25 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 26 walking | mark |
| 26 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 keep | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 direction | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 direction | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 direction | amod |
| 30 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walking | obl |
| 31 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 come | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 come | nsubj |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | advcl |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 temple | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 temple | det |
| 36 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Buddha | case |
| 38 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 temple | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | ahead property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | present | you | a grove of bamboo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grove=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rest | might | you | moment | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | walk | gerund | you not said here | the same direction | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | come | present | you | the temple of Buddha | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon temple=Location |
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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