Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 23
Consider your poor blind father and think what will become of him when he no longer has you with him.
Who acts: you, father · What happens: consider, think, become, have · To what, where: poor blind father, you · 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 (you, father), 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 | Consider | consider | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 father | amod |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 father | amod |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Consider | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 think | cc |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Consider | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 become | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | aux |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 become | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 has | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | nsubj |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 has | advmod |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 has | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 has | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Consider | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | imperative | you not said here | your poor blind father | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent father=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | future | of father; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | have | present | father | you | with child; long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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