Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 183
Why should he not push things to the limit and place himself upon the throne?
Who acts: Mi · What happens: not push · To what, where: things, limit
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mi), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 push | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 push | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 push | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 push | advmod |
| 5 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 push | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 limit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 limit | det |
| 9 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 push | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 place | cc |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 limit | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 place | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 throne | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 throne | det |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 push | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 push | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not push | should | Mi | things | the limit and place Mi | upon the throne | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to limit=Trajectory |
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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