Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 149
If you are afraid that my mother’s prisoner will escape, let me have your sabre.
Who acts: you, prisoner, me · What happens: be, escape, let, have · To what, where: me, sabre
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, prisoner, me), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 afraid | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 let | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 escape | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 9 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 escape | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 escape | aux |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sabre | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | escape | future | my mother's prisoner | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | me not said here | your sabre | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabre=Patient |
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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