Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 107
You have given me the first pleasure in my life and I am obliged to resume my travels within a few days.”
Who acts: You · What happens: give, oblige, resume, travel · To what, where: first pleasure, me, life, I
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 given | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pleasure | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 pleasure | amod |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleasure | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 obliged | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 obliged | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 obliged | aux:pass |
| 14 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 resume | mark |
| 16 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 obliged | xcomp |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 travels | nmod:poss |
| 18 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 resume | ccomp |
| 19 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 days | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 days | amod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 travels | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | You | the first pleasure | me | my life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme | ||
| 2 | oblige | present · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | resume | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | travel | present | day | my nmod:poss | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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