Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 12
Perhaps, however, a member of the Royal Family might be found who would accept the trust.”
What happens: find, accept · To what, where: member, trust
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: 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 found | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 member | det |
| 6 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Family | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Family | det |
| 9 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Family | amod |
| 10 | Family | Family | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 member | nmod |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 accept | advcl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 accept | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 accept | aux |
| 16 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trust | det |
| 18 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accept | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 accept | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | might · passive | a member of the Royal Family | however, perhaps property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | accept | would | the trust | who nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=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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