Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 23
Something within me gives me confidence in what I am telling you, but prepare yourself for a long separation--take courage.”
Who acts: Something, I · What happens: give, tell, prepare, take · To what, where: confidence, me, you, yourself, courage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Something, I), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | within | within | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Something | nmod |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gives | iobj |
| 6 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 confidence | nmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 telling | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 telling | aux |
| 11 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 telling | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prepare | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 prepare | cc |
| 15 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | parataxis |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 prepare | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 separation | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 separation | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 separation | amod |
| 20 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prepare | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 prepare | conj |
| 23 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Something within me | confidence | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient confidence=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | prepare | infinitive | yourself | for a long separation | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent yourself=Product for separation=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=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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