Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 30
They think that behind these high thick walls, outside of which they have stationed a number of soldiers, it would be useless to inflict upon me other guards or restrictions.
Who acts: Ja, it · What happens: think, station, be, inflict · To what, where: number, high thick walls, other guards · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ja, it), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 useless | mark |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 walls | nsubj |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walls | amod |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walls | amod |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 useless | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stationed | punct |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stationed | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stationed | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stationed | aux |
| 15 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 walls | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 number | det |
| 17 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stationed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 soldiers | case |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 number | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walls | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 useless | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 useless | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 useless | cop |
| 24 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 think | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 inflict | mark |
| 26 | inflict | inflict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 useless | csubj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 inflict | obl |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 guards | amod |
| 30 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 inflict | obj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 restrictions | cc |
| 32 | restrictions | restriction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 guards | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Ja | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | station | present · perfect | Ja | a number of soldiers | high thick walls these | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme outside which=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | would | it | high thick walls these | useless property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | inflict | to-infinitive | other guards or restrictions | upon me | tree rules |
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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