Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 81
With this dangerous fool out of the way, nothing, nor nobody, can oppose me in the execution of my ambitious designs and I can easily secure the throne.”
Who acts: I, my · What happens: oppose, secure, execute, design · To what, where: me, execution, throne, ambitious designs
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, my), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 fool | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fool | det |
| 3 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fool | amod |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 oppose | obl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fool | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 fool | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 nobody | cc |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 fool | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 oppose | aux |
| 16 | oppose | oppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 oppose | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 execution | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 execution | det |
| 20 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 oppose | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 designs | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 designs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 designs | amod |
| 24 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 execution | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 secure | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 secure | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 secure | aux |
| 28 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 29 secure | advmod |
| 29 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 oppose | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 throne | det |
| 31 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 secure | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 secure | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 secure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oppose | can | me | the execution of my ambitious designs | with this dangerous fool out the way nothing nobody | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | secure | can | I | the throne | easily property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition throne=Theme | |||
| 3 | execute | my ambitious designs | nom execution «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | design | my | nom design «act transitive»: 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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