Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 150
I will take your place while you get me what I want.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: take, get, want · To what, where: place, me
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 place | nmod:poss |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 want | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | your place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | you | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | want | present | I | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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