Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 16
“Why must you continue to lead this sinful life?
Who acts: you · What happens: continue, lead · To what, where: sinful life
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 continue | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 continue | advmod |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 continue | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 continue | nsubj |
| 5 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lead | mark |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 continue | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 life | det |
| 9 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 life | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | must | you | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lead in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | this sinful life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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