Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 65
“Do you think for a minute that I will ever allow you to do anything like that?”
Who acts: you, Su, minute · What happens: think, allow, do · To what, where: minute, you, anything
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, Su, minute), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 minute | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 minute | det |
| 7 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 allow | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 allow | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 allow | aux |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 allow | advmod |
| 12 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 minute | acl:relcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 allow | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 allow | xcomp |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 anything | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | minute | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | allow in a quote | future | Su and Yeng = su | a minute | you | ever | tree rules | ||
| 3 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | a minute not said here | anything | like that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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