Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 43
Your people and no one else, and the Governors instead of doing their duty are also leading a frivolous and even vicious life.
Who acts: Governors, people · What happens: do, lead · To what, where: duty, frivolous life
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 (Governors, people), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 people | nmod:poss |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leading | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 one | cc |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | conj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Governors | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Governors | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Governors | det |
| 10 | Governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | conj |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 doing | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Governors | acl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 duty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doing | obj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 leading | aux |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 leading | advmod |
| 18 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 life | det |
| 20 | frivolous | frivolous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 life | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 vicious | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 vicious | advmod |
| 23 | vicious | vicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 frivolous | conj |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leading | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 leading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | the Governors not said here | people's duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lead | present · progressive | Your people and no one and the Governors | a frivolous life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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