Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 34
Therefore, it is my opinion, sire, that we should not declare war.
Who acts: tolerance, we · What happens: be, not declare · To what, where: opinion, war
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 (tolerance, 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 opinion | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 opinion | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 opinion | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sire | punct |
| 8 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opinion | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 declare | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 declare | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 declare | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 declare | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 declare | advmod |
| 14 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 opinion | parataxis |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 declare | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tolerance | my opinion and sire | my nmod:poss; sire conj; therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not declare speech: other | should | we | war | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
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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