Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 124
I mean by this that if you had not been moved by evil intentions, you would not have addressed this letter to your friend.”
Who acts: I, evil intentions · What happens: mean, not move, not address · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, evil intentions), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 mean | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 addressed | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 moved | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 moved | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 moved | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 moved | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 moved | aux:pass |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 addressed | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 intentions | case |
| 13 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 intentions | amod |
| 14 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 moved | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moved | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 addressed | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 addressed | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 addressed | aux |
| 20 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mean | ccomp |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 letter | det |
| 22 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 addressed | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 friend | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friend | nmod:poss |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 letter | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mean | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | I | by this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not move a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | evil intentions | you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | not address | would · perfect · passive | you | this letter obj | tree rules |
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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