Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 65
If the wicked-hearted seek to restrain you, kill them.
Who acts: hearted seek, you · What happens: restrain, kill · To what, where: you, obstacles
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearted seek, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 restrain | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 seek | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hearted | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wicked | punct |
| 5 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seek | amod |
| 6 | seek | seek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 restrain | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 restrain | mark |
| 8 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kill | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 restrain | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 restrain | punct |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restrain a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | the hearted seek | you | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kill | imperative | you not said here | obstacles = obstacle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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