Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 32
He asked you to guide and advise me but did not intimate that you should take my place at the head of the Koreans.
Who acts: youth, you · What happens: ask, guide, advise, not intimate, take · To what, where: you, me, place, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youth, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 guide | mark |
| 5 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 advise | cc |
| 7 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guide | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 advise | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 intimate | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 intimate | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 intimate | advmod |
| 12 | intimate | intimate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 intimate | ccomp |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Koreans | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Koreans | det |
| 24 | Koreans | Korean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 head | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | youth | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | guide not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | infinitive | youth not said here | me | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not intimate speech: other | past · do-support | youth not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take | should | you | my place | the head of the Koreans | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at head=Asset |
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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