Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 51
Hardly was he there before the King turned to San-Syeng, saying: “I wish to bring about a complete re-organization of the Government.”
Who acts: Mandarin, King · What happens: be, turn, say, wish, bring · To what, where: San · Speech: someone speaks here
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, King), 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 there | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 turned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 San | case |
| 10 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Syeng | punct |
| 12 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 San | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 turned | advcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | xcomp |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 re-organization | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 re-organization | det |
| 23 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 re-organization | amod |
| 24 | re-organization | re-organization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Government | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Government | det |
| 27 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 re-organization | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mandarin | hardly, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the King | San | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to san=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | the King = king | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the King = king not said here | about a complete re-organization of the Government | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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