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title: If you are afraid that my mother’s prisoner will escape, let me have… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are afraid that my mother’s prisoner will escape, let me have your sabre. Who acts: you, prisoner, me. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 149

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If you are afraid that my mother’s prisoner will escape, let me have your sabre.

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**Who acts:** you, prisoner, me · **What happens:** be, escape, let, have · **To what, where:** me, sabre

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prisoner, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:7:149
# text = If you are afraid that my mother’s prisoner will escape, let me have your sabre.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** | future | my mother's prisoner |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | infinitive | me *not said here* | your sabre |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabre=Patient |

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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.

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**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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