Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 26
What is the cause of your heavy taxes if not the need of maintaining a large army?
Who acts: need, your · What happens: be, maintain, tax · To what, where: cause, large army
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 (need, your), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cause | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cause | det |
| 4 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 taxes | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 taxes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 taxes | amod |
| 8 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cause | nmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 need | mark |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 need | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 need | det |
| 12 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taxes | conj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 maintaining | mark |
| 14 | maintaining | maintain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 need | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 army | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 army | amod |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maintaining | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the cause | of your heavy taxes and the need; What nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | maintain | gerund | the need not said here | a large army | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tax | your | nom tax «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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