Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 110
San-Syeng had been a very powerful factor in establishing the legitimate sovereign of Korea on the throne but he did not by any means consider his life work as finished.
Who acts: San · What happens: be, establish, mean, consider, finish, work · To what, where: powerful factor, legitimate sovereign, throne, life work · 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 (San), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 factor | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 factor | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 factor | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 factor | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 powerful | advmod |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 factor | amod |
| 9 | factor | factor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 establishing | mark |
| 11 | establishing | establish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 factor | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sovereign | det |
| 13 | legitimate | legitimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sovereign | amod |
| 14 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 establishing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Korea | case |
| 16 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sovereign | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 throne | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 throne | det |
| 19 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 establishing | obl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 did | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 means | nsubj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 did | advmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 any | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 did | obl |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 factor | parataxis |
| 27 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 means | ccomp |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 work | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 work | compound |
| 30 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 consider | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 finished | mark |
| 32 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 consider | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 factor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | San | a powerful factor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | establish | gerund | San not said here | the legitimate sovereign of Korea | the throne | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme on throne=Source | |||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | consider | infinitive | San's life work | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent work=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | finish | participle | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | work | San | nom work «act 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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