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title: “I do not wish the punishment of our guilty neighbors although sever… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “I do not wish the punishment of our guilty neighbors although several of them have done me a great deal of harm. Who acts: reason, several. 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 35

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“I do not wish the punishment of our guilty neighbors although several of them have done me a great deal of harm.

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**Who acts:** reason, several · **What happens:** not wish, do, punish, deal · **To what, where:** punishment, great deal, reason, guilty neighbors, harm

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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 (reason, several), 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:pg78208:13:35
# text = “I do not wish the punishment of our guilty neighbors although several of them have done me a great deal of harm.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | reason | the punishment of our guilty neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot punishment=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | several of neighbors | a great deal of harm | reason |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **punish** *in a quote* |  |  | our guilty neighbors |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **deal** *in a quote* |  |  | harm |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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