Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 23
At the question the Prince, who had seemed afflicted with great uneasiness and a sort of illness during the preceding conversation, fell to the floor in a faint.
What happens: afflict, precede, fall, sort · To what, where: Prince, question, faint, illness
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 question | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 afflicted | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 afflicted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 afflicted | aux |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 afflicted | aux:pass |
| 10 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 uneasiness | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 uneasiness | amod |
| 13 | uneasiness | uneasiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 afflicted | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sort | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sort | det |
| 16 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 uneasiness | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 illness | case |
| 18 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sort | nmod |
| 19 | during | during | ADP | _ | 22 conversation | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 conversation | det |
| 21 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 conversation | amod |
| 22 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 afflicted | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 afflicted | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 floor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 floor | det |
| 27 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 faint | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 faint | det |
| 30 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 afflicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afflict | past · passive | the Prince | the question | during the preceding conversation | with great uneasiness and a sort of illness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | a faint | to the floor | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in faint=Location | ||||
| 4 | sort | illness | nom sort «cognition 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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