Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 14
“The simplest thing would be to confer upon him the succession to his father.”
Who acts: simplest thing · What happens: 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 (simplest thing), 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 | _ | 8 confer | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | simplest | simple | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confer | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 confer | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 confer | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 confer | mark |
| 8 | confer | confer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 confer | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 succession | det |
| 12 | succession | succession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confer | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 confer | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 confer | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 confer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | the simplest thing | upon King; to King's father; the succession obj; confer 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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