Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 7
“What will it profit us to declare war which sooner or later will bring reprisals?”
What happens: declare, bring · To what, where: war, profit
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: 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 profit | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 profit | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 profit | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 profit | nsubj |
| 5 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 profit | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 declare | mark |
| 8 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 profit | acl |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 declare | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 bring | obj |
| 11 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 bring | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 later | cc |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 sooner | conj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 war | acl:relcl |
| 16 | reprisals | reprisal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 profit | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 profit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | war | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | future | war | reprisals obj; soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination reprisal=Theme |
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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