Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 112
Do not forsake the turtle who has saved your life until he has carried you safely to the shore.”
Who acts: you, vision · What happens: not forsake, save, carry · To what, where: turtle, you, shore
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, vision), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 forsake | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 forsake | advmod |
| 3 | forsake | forsake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 turtle | det |
| 5 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forsake | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saved | aux |
| 8 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 turtle | acl:relcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saved | obj |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 carried | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | aux |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 forsake | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 14 carried | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forsake | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forsake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forsake | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the turtle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | save | present · perfect · passive | the turtle | your life obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | present · perfect | vision | you | the shore | safely property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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