Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 75
Take and keep what money they have on them and kill them.
Who acts: you, Su · What happens: take, keep, have, kill · To what, where: money, Su
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), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 keep | cc |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 money | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kill | cc |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | what money | on Su | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme on they=Location | |||
| 3 | have | present | Su | what money not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | Su | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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