Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 196
Promise me to give this child the guidance of your counsel and wisdom.
Who acts: you · What happens: promise, give, guide · To what, where: me, guidance, child, counsel
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 | Promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Promise | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Promise | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guidance | det |
| 8 | guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 counsel | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 11 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guidance | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wisdom | cc |
| 13 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 counsel | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | imperative | you not said here | me | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the guidance of your counsel and wisdom | this child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient guidance=Theme | |||
| 3 | guide | your counsel and wisdom | nom guidance «communication transitive»: of=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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