Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 101
The new King had barely taken possession of the palace of his fathers than he ordered a reduction in the taxes which were oppressing his people.
Who acts: new King, King, reduction · What happens: take, order, oppress · To what, where: possession, reduction, taxes, people
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new King, King, reduction), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 5 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fathers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 palace | nmod |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 reduction | det |
| 18 | reduction | reduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 taxes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 taxes | det |
| 21 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reduction | nmod |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 oppressing | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 oppressing | aux |
| 24 | oppressing | oppress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 reduction | acl:relcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 people | nmod:poss |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 oppressing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | the new King | possession | of the palace of King's fathers; barely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent possession=Theme of palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | order | past | King | a reduction | the taxes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reduction=Theme | |||
| 3 | oppress | past · progressive | a reduction | King's people | 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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