Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 25
In spite of your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability I fear that you are too young to rule alone.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: fear, be, rule, spite · To what, where: spite, exceptional intelligence
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fear | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 intelligence | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 intelligence | nmod:poss |
| 5 | exceptional | exceptional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 intelligence | amod |
| 6 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ability | cc |
| 8 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ability | amod |
| 9 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 intelligence | conj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fear | nsubj |
| 11 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 young | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 young | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 young | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 young | advmod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fear | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rule | mark |
| 18 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 young | xcomp |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 18 rule | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | spite of your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rule | to-infinitive | you not said here | alone property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spite | your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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