Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 52
The Governors, forewarned by your complaint, will not allow themselves to be injured and their pleasures curtailed, and upon you their anger will surely fall.
Who acts: Governors, pleasures, anger, your · What happens: forewarn, not allow, injure, curtail, fall, complain · To what, where: Governors
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, pleasures, anger, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Governors | det |
| 2 | Governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 allow | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forewarned | punct |
| 4 | forewarned | forewarn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Governors | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 complaint | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 complaint | nmod:poss |
| 7 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forewarned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Governors | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 allow | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 allow | advmod |
| 11 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 allow | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 injured | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 injured | aux:pass |
| 15 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 allow | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 curtailed | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pleasures | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 curtailed | nsubj |
| 19 | curtailed | curtail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 injured | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fall | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fall | cc |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 fall | obl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 anger | nmod:poss |
| 25 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fall | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 fall | aux |
| 27 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 28 fall | advmod |
| 28 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allow | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forewarn | participle | the Governors not said here | by your complaint | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not allow | future | the Governors | Governors = governor | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | injure | to-infinitive · passive | the Governors not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | curtail | participle | Governors's pleasures | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fall | future | Governors's anger | upon you; surely property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon you=Location | ||||
| 6 | complain | your | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | please | Governors = governor | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | anger | Governors = governor | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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