--- title: “I am somewhat taken with the wife of our passenger,” he whispered t… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: “I am somewhat taken with the wife of our passenger,” he whispered to his brother, “I want her and I’m going to get her. Who acts: passenger. 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/pg78208/5/61/) [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/) / 61 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 61 “I am somewhat taken with the wife of our passenger,” he whispered to his brother, “I want her and I’m going to get her. **Who acts:** passenger · **What happens:** take, whisper, want, be, go, get · **To what, where:** passenger, brother, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (passenger), 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:pg78208:5:63 # text = “I am somewhat taken with the wife of our passenger,” he whispered to his brother, “I want her and I’m going to get her. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 somewhat somewhat ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 passenger passenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *in a quote* | present · passive | | passenger | | | | with the wife of our passenger; somewhat *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | passenger | | passenger's brother | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | passenger | wife | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | passenger | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | passenger *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | passenger *not said here* | wife | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/5/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/5/62/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/5/)