Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 120
“Thank you, good turtle, for saving my life.”
What happens: thank, save · To what, where: good turtle, you, life
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turtle | punct |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turtle | amod |
| 6 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thank | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saving | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 saving | mark |
| 9 | saving | save | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Thank | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saving | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | good turtle | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save in a quote | gerund | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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