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title: What is the cause of your heavy taxes if not the need of maintaining… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the cause of your heavy taxes if not the need of maintaining a large army? Who acts: need, your. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 26

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What is the cause of your heavy taxes if not the need of maintaining a large army?

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**Who acts:** need, your · **What happens:** be, maintain, tax · **To what, where:** cause, large army

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:13:26
# text = What is the cause of your heavy taxes if not the need of maintaining a large army?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	maintaining	maintain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the cause |  |  |  | of your heavy taxes and the need; What *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **maintain** | gerund | the need *not said here* | a large army |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 3 | **tax** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom tax «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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