Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 36
I could not believe that, if my King knew the sad conditions in which so many of his people are living, he would give himself up to pleasure as you are doing.
Who acts: I, King, sad conditions, you · What happens: not believe, know, live, give up, pleasure, do · To what, where: that, King · 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, King, sad conditions, you), 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 | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 believe | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 King | nmod:poss |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 conditions | det |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conditions | amod |
| 13 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 living | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 many | obl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conditions | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 people | nmod:poss |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 many | nmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 living | aux |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believe | conj |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 give | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 pleasure | mark |
| 30 | pleasure | pleasure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 give | xcomp |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 doing | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 doing | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 doing | aux |
| 34 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 pleasure | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | could | I | that | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | my King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | live | present · progressive | the sad conditions | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give up | would | King | King | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pleasure | to-infinitive | King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | present · progressive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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