Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 13
“And suppose, for the sake of argument, that it were not true that the King’s son were dead?”
Who acts: you, member, son · What happens: suppose, not be, be
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 (you, member, son), 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 suppose | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 suppose | cc |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sake | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sake | det |
| 7 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suppose | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 argument | case |
| 9 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sake | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 true | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 true | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 true | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 true | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 true | advmod |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 suppose | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 dead | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dead | cop |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 true | advcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | imperative | you not said here | for the sake of argument | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | past | member | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the King's son | dead property | tree rules |
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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