Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 33
Perhaps the stronger dog will always seek to oppress the weaker, but are we not superior beings and do we not possess reason which teaches tolerance and mercy to our neighbors?
Who acts: stronger dog, we, reason · What happens: seek, oppress, not be, not possess, teach · To what, where: weaker, superior beings, reason, tolerance, neighbors
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 (stronger dog, we, reason), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 seek | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 3 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 dog | amod |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 seek | aux |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 seek | advmod |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 oppress | mark |
| 9 | oppress | oppress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seek | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weaker | det |
| 11 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 oppress | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beings | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 beings | cc |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 beings | cop |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 beings | nsubj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 beings | advmod |
| 17 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beings | amod |
| 18 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seek | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 possess | cc |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 possess | aux |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 possess | nsubj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 possess | advmod |
| 23 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seek | conj |
| 24 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 possess | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 teaches | nsubj |
| 26 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 reason | acl:relcl |
| 27 | tolerance | tolerance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 teaches | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mercy | cc |
| 29 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tolerance | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 neighbors | case |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 32 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 teaches | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | future | the stronger dog | always, perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oppress not said to happen | to-infinitive | the stronger dog not said here | the weaker | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | we | superior beings | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not possess | present · do-support | we | reason | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reason=Theme | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | present | reason | tolerance and mercy | our neighbors | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tolerance=Topic to neighbor=Recipient |
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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