Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 50
The Mandarin approved this suggestion, and at once the party set out for the To-Wan.
Who acts: Mandarin · What happens: approve, set out · To what, where: suggestion
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 (Mandarin), 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 Mandarin | det |
| 2 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 approved | nsubj |
| 3 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 suggestion | det |
| 5 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approved | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 set | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 party | det |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 once | obj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 approved | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Wan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wan | det |
| 16 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wan | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 To | punct |
| 18 | Wan | Wan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past | the Mandarin | this suggestion | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suggestion=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | set out | participle | the Mandarin not said here | for the To Wan; once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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