Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 15
It was not my liberty but my life which I gave in exchange for the three hundred sacks of rice which you promised the disciple.
Who acts: food, liberty, you · What happens: not be, give, promise · To what, where: liberty, exchange, rice
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 (food, liberty, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liberty | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 liberty | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 liberty | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 liberty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 life | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liberty | conj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 liberty | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 exchange | case |
| 13 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sacks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sacks | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 sacks | nummod |
| 18 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rice | case |
| 20 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sacks | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 promised | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 promised | nsubj |
| 23 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rice | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 disciple | det |
| 25 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 promised | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 liberty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | food | my liberty but my life | my nmod:poss; my life conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past | my liberty but my life | exchange | for the hundred sacks of rice; I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for sack=Asset | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | you | rice | the disciple obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent which=Goal disciple=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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