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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 61

“I am somewhat taken with the wife of our passenger,” he whispered to his brother, “I want her and I’m going to get her.

Who acts: passenger · What happens: take, whisper, want, be, go, get · To what, where: passenger, brother, wife · 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 (passenger), 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

punctnsubjaux:passadvmodadvclcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctpunctnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctnsubjparataxisobjccnsubjconjxcompmarkxcompobjpunctroot“PUNCTIPRONamAUXsomewhatADVtakenVERBwithADPtheDETwifeNOUNofADPourPRONpassengerNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONwhisperedVERBtoADPhisPRONbrotherNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONwantVERBherPRONandCCONJIPRON’mVERBgoingVERBtoPARTgetVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 takenpunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 takennsubj
3ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 takenaux:pass
4somewhatsomewhatADV_5 takenadvmod
5takentakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 whisperedadvcl
6withwithADP_8 wifecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 wifedet
8wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing5 takenobl
9ofofADP_11 passengercase
10ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 passengernmod:poss
11passengerpassengerNOUNNumber=Sing8 wifenmod
12,,PUNCT_5 takenpunct
13”"PUNCT_5 takenpunct
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 whisperednsubj
15whisperedwhisperVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16totoADP_18 brothercase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 brothernmod:poss
18brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing15 whisperedobl
19,,PUNCT_22 wantpunct
20“"PUNCT_22 wantpunct
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 wantnsubj
22wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 whisperedparataxis
23hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 wantobj
24andandCCONJ_26 ’mcc
25IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 ’mnsubj
26’mbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 wantconj
27goinggoVERBVerbForm=Ger26 ’mxcomp
28totoPART_29 getmark
29getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf27 goingxcomp
30hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 getobj
31..PUNCT_15 whisperedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1take in a quotepresent · passivepassengerwith the wife of our passenger; somewhat propertyvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
2whisper speech: assertpastpassengerpassenger's brothervn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic
3want in a quotepresentpassengerwifevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
4be in a quotepresentpassengertree rules
5go in a quotegerundpassenger not said herevn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6get in a quoteto-infinitivepassenger not said herewifevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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