Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 35
“I do not wish the punishment of our guilty neighbors although several of them have done me a great deal of harm.
Who acts: reason, several · What happens: not wish, do, punish, deal · To what, where: punishment, great deal, reason, guilty neighbors, harm
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 (reason, several), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wish | advmod |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 punishment | det |
| 7 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 neighbors | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 neighbors | amod |
| 11 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 punishment | nmod |
| 12 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 done | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 several | nmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wish | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 done | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 deal | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 deal | amod |
| 21 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 harm | case |
| 23 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deal | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | reason | the punishment of our guilty neighbors | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot punishment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · perfect | several of neighbors | a great deal of harm | reason | tree rules | |||
| 3 | punish in a quote | our guilty neighbors | nom punishment «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | deal in a quote | harm | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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