Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 32
Why should we be more cruel with our fellow men than with our animals?
Who acts: we · What happens: be
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 (we), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 cruel | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cruel | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 cruel | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cruel | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 cruel | advmod |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 men | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cruel | obl |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 animals | nmod:poss |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 men | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cruel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | we | with our fellow men than our animals; cruel property | tree rules |
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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