Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 102
These measures were approved by his Queen who desired that they be even carried further.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: approve, desire, carry · To what, where: measures
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 (Queen), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 measures | det |
| 2 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 approved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 approved | aux:pass |
| 4 | approved | approve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 approved | obl:agent |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 desired | nsubj |
| 9 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 approved | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 carried | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 carried | advmod |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 desired | advcl |
| 15 | further | further | ADV | _ | 14 carried | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past · passive | King's Queen | this measures | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | desire | past | who nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | carry | infinitive · passive | measures = measure | further property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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