Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 139
Is it not my duty to follow you wherever you may go, even to the bottom of the sea?
Who acts: blood, you · What happens: not be, follow, go · To what, where: duty, you, bottom
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 duty | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 duty | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 duty | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 duty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 follow | mark |
| 7 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 duty | acl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 follow | obj |
| 9 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 go | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 follow | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bottom | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 bottom | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bottom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bottom | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 duty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | blood | my duty | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | may | you | the bottom of the sea | wherever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location |
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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