Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 141
“I am standing guard at your mother’s orders and I am to kill the first person who leaves your room.”
Who acts: girl, first person, mother · What happens: stand, kill, leave, order · To what, where: guard, orders, first person, room
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 (girl, first person, mother), 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 | _ | 4 standing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 orders | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 orders | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 10 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 standing | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kill | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 standing | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 person | amod |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 leaves | nsubj |
| 20 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 person | acl:relcl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 room | nmod:poss |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaves | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | present · progressive | girl | guard | your mother's orders | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme at order=Destination | |||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present | girl | the first person | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present | the first person | your room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 4 | order in a quote | your mother | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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