Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 25
It causes destruction beyond measure, and it is impossible to count the innocent ones who perish on the battlefield and at home.
Who acts: war, innocent ones · What happens: cause, be, count, perish · To what, where: destruction, innocent ones, battlefield
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, innocent ones), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 causes | nsubj |
| 2 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 causes | obj |
| 4 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 measure | case |
| 5 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 causes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 impossible | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 impossible | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 impossible | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 impossible | cop |
| 10 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 causes | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 count | mark |
| 12 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 impossible | csubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ones | det |
| 14 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ones | amod |
| 15 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 count | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 perish | nsubj |
| 17 | perish | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ones | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 battlefield | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 battlefield | det |
| 20 | battlefield | battlefield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perish | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 home | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 battlefield | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 causes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | war | destruction | beyond measure | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition destruction=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | count | to-infinitive | the innocent ones | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perish | present | the innocent ones | the battlefield and home | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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