--- title: I am going to show you the road which you should take to escape from… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: I am going to show you the road which you should take to escape from Su-Rung. Who acts: I, road. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/5/148/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/5/) / 148 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 148 I am going to show you the road which you should take to escape from Su-Rung. **Who acts:** I, road · **What happens:** go, show, take, escape · **To what, where:** road, you, Su This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, road), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:5:150 # text = I am going to show you the road which you should take to escape from Su-Rung. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Su Su PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Rung Rung PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present · progressive | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the road | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient road=Topic | | 3 | **take** | should | the road | | | | | you *nsubj* | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 4 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the road *not said here* | | | Su and Rung | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from su=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. - ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/5/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/5/149/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/5/)