Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 105
The King recognized the wisdom of this idea and ordered San-Syeng to send out in all directions honest and devoted men on this errand.
Who acts: King · What happens: recognize, order, send out · To what, where: wisdom, San, honest men, directions
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 (King), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 recognized | nsubj |
| 3 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wisdom | det |
| 5 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognized | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 idea | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 idea | det |
| 8 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wisdom | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognized | conj |
| 11 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 San | punct |
| 13 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 San | flat |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 send | mark |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 send | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 directions | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 directions | det |
| 19 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 send | obl |
| 20 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 men | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 devoted | cc |
| 22 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 honest | conj |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 send | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 errand | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 errand | det |
| 26 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | the King | the wisdom of this idea | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the King not said here | San | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent san=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | honest men | all directions | on this errand | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in direction=Destination |
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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