Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 197
Teach him to govern kindly and finish his education.”
Who acts: you, child · What happens: teach, govern, finish, educate · To what, where: child, education
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, child), 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 | Teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Teach | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 govern | mark |
| 4 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Teach | xcomp |
| 5 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 4 govern | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 finish | cc |
| 7 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 govern | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 education | nmod:poss |
| 9 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finish | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teach | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | imperative | you not said here | child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | govern | to-infinitive | you not said here | kindly property | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | finish | infinitive | you not said here | child's education | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality education=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | educate | child | nom education «act 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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