Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 128
“Take a sabre, and place yourself before this door.
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: sabre, door
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sabre | det |
| 4 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 place | cc |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 place | nmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a sabre | this door | place yourself obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sabre=Theme before door=Destination |
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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