Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 78
Su-Yeng here interposed, “I think you should be content with taking their money, but at least spare their lives.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: interpose, think, be, take, spare · To what, where: Su, money, lives, least · 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 (I, 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 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 interposed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yeng | punct |
| 3 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Su | conj |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 interposed | advmod |
| 5 | interposed | interpose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 interposed | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 content | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 content | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 content | cop |
| 13 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 think | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 taking | mark |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 content | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 money | nmod:poss |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spare | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 spare | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 least | case |
| 21 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 spare | obl |
| 22 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 think | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lives | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spare | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interposed | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 interposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interpose speech: other | participle · passive | Su and Yeng | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should | you | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | gerund | you not said here | Su's money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spare in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | Su's lives | least | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
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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