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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 9

“Sire,” he said, “do you not believe that it would be advisable to know what your subjects think of this war before undertaking the campaign?”

Who acts: Minister, you, it, subjects · What happens: say, not believe, be, know, think, undertake · To what, where: campaign · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Minister, you, it, subjects), 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

punctccomppunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctauxnsubjadvmodccompmarknsubjauxcopconjmarkcsubjobjnmod:possnsubjccompcasedetoblmarkadvcldetobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTSireNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTdoAUXyouPRONnotPARTbelieveVERBthatSCONJitPRONwouldAUXbeAUXadvisableADJtoPARTknowVERBwhatPRONyourPRONsubjectsNOUNthinkVERBofADPthisDETwarNOUNbeforeSCONJundertakingVERBtheDETcampaignNOUN?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
2SiresireNOUNNumber=Sing6 saidccomp
3,,PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 saidnsubj
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7,,PUNCT_12 believepunct
8“"PUNCT_12 believepunct
9dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 believeaux
10youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs12 believensubj
11notnotPARTPolarity=Neg12 believeadvmod
12believebelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 saidccomp
13thatthatSCONJ_17 advisablemark
14ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 advisablensubj
15wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 advisableaux
16bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf17 advisablecop
17advisableadvisableADJDegree=Pos12 believeconj
18totoPART_19 knowmark
19knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf17 advisablecsubj
20whatwhatPRONPronType=Int23 thinkobj
21youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 subjectsnmod:poss
22subjectssubjectNOUNNumber=Plur23 thinknsubj
23thinkthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 knowccomp
24ofofADP_26 warcase
25thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem26 wardet
26warwarNOUNNumber=Sing23 thinkobl
27beforebeforeSCONJ_28 undertakingmark
28undertakingundertakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 thinkadvcl
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 campaigndet
30campaigncampaignNOUNNumber=Sing28 undertakingobj
31??PUNCT_6 saidpunct
32”"PUNCT_6 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: askpastMinisterSire ccompvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2not believe in a quotepresent · do-supportyouvn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3is in a quotewoulditadvisable propertytree rules
4know in a quoteto-infinitivevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5think speech: other in a quotepresentyour subjectsof this war; what objvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
6undertake in a quotegerundyour subjects not said herethe campaignvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Eventuality

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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