Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 103
“Who knows,” she said, “if the Mandarins will carry out the orders; perhaps they will continue to persecute the people to their profit?
Who acts: Queen, Mandarins, Orders · What happens: know, say, carry out, continue, persecute, profit · To what, where: orders, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Mandarins, Orders), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mandarins | det |
| 12 | Mandarins | mandarin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 carry | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 orders | det |
| 17 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 continue | punct |
| 19 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 continue | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 continue | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 continue | aux |
| 22 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knows | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 persecute | mark |
| 24 | persecute | persecute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 continue | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 people | det |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 persecute | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 profit | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 profit | nmod:poss |
| 29 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 persecute | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | the Mandarins | the orders | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | continue in a quote | future | Orders = order | perhaps property | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | persecute in a quote | to-infinitive | Orders = order not said here | the people | to Orders's profit | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||
| 6 | profit in a quote | Orders = order | nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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