Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 106
This done, the new General left the Capital, wearing the modest clothes he had worn when the King had placed the command of the troops in his hands.
Who acts: new General, General, King · What happens: do, leave, wear, place, command · To what, where: This, Capital, modest clothes, command, hands, troops · 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 (new General, General, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 left | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 General | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 General | amod |
| 6 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Capital | det |
| 9 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wearing | punct |
| 11 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 left | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clothes | det |
| 13 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clothes | amod |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 wearing | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 worn | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worn | aux |
| 17 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 placed | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 worn | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 command | det |
| 24 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 troops | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 troops | det |
| 27 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 command | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hands | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hands | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 placed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | the new General | the Capital | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear | gerund | the new General not said here | the modest clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | ||||
| 4 | wear | past · perfect | General | the modest clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | ||||
| 5 | place | past · perfect | the King | the command of the troops | King's hands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent command=Theme in hand=Destination | |||
| 6 | command | the troops | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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