Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 32
“Sire, either my duties or sickness.
To what, where: Sire
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: 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 duties | punct |
| 4 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 6 duties | cc:preconj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 duties | nmod:poss |
| 6 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Sire | appos |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 sickness | cc |
| 8 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 duties | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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