Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 47
The soldiers surrounded the house, while the Mandarin, in all the glory of his gorgeous robes, went to pay his respects to the Sovereign.
Who acts: soldiers, gorgeous robes · What happens: surround, go, pay, glory · To what, where: house, respects
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 (soldiers, gorgeous robes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | nsubj |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soldiers | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surrounded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mandarin | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 Mandarin | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mandarin | det |
| 9 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 soldiers | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glory | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 glory | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 glory | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 glory | det |
| 14 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soldiers | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 robes | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 robes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robes | amod |
| 18 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 glory | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soldiers | punct |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pay | mark |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 respects | nmod:poss |
| 24 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pay | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Sovereign | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sovereign | det |
| 27 | Sovereign | Sovereign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | the soldiers and the Mandarin and all glory of Mandarin's gorgeous robes not said here | the house | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the soldiers and the Mandarin and all glory of Mandarin's gorgeous robes | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | the soldiers and the Mandarin and all glory of Mandarin's gorgeous robes not said here | Mandarin's respects | to the Sovereign | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | |||
| 4 | glory | Mandarin's gorgeous robes | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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