Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 37
May this example serve as a lesson to those peoples who have similar wicked thoughts.”
Who acts: peoples · What happens: have · To what, where: similar wicked thoughts, serve
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 (peoples), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 serve | aux |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 serve | det |
| 3 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 serve | nmod |
| 4 | serve | serve | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 lesson | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lesson | det |
| 7 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 serve | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 peoples | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 peoples | det |
| 10 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lesson | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 peoples | acl:relcl |
| 13 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thoughts | amod |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thoughts | amod |
| 15 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 serve | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | that peoples | similar wicked thoughts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=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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