Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 51
“But if your brother was a criminal, you have nothing to reproach yourself with.”
Who acts: brother, you · What happens: be, have, reproach · To what, where: criminal, nothing, yourself
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 (brother, 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 | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 criminal | mark |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 criminal | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 criminal | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 criminal | det |
| 8 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 criminal | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reproach | mark |
| 14 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nothing | acl |
| 15 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 reproach | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 reproach | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | your brother | a criminal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reproach in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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