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title: The Governors, forewarned by your complaint, will not allow themselv… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The Governors, forewarned by your complaint, will not allow themselves to be injured and their pleasures curtailed, and upon you their anger will surely fall. Who acts: Governors, pleasures, anger, your. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 52

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The Governors, forewarned by your complaint, will not allow themselves to be injured and their pleasures curtailed, and upon you their anger will surely fall.

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**Who acts:** Governors, pleasures, anger, your · **What happens:** forewarn, not allow, injure, curtail, fall, complain · **To what, where:** Governors

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Governors, pleasures, anger, 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:pg78208:3:52
# text = The Governors, forewarned by your complaint, will not allow themselves to be injured and their pleasures curtailed, and upon you their anger will surely fall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Governors	governor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	forewarned	forewarn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	curtailed	curtail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forewarn** | participle |  | the Governors *not said here* |  |  |  | by your complaint | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | future | the Governors | Governors *= governor* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **injure** | to-infinitive · passive | the Governors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **curtail** | participle | Governors's pleasures |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | future | Governors's anger |  |  |  |  | upon you; surely *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon you=Location |
| 6 | **complain** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **please** |  | Governors *= governor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **anger** |  | Governors *= governor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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