Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 54
San-Syeng was confused, but had to obey the wishes of the Prince and he knew the latter would confer offices only upon those whom he deemed the most worthy among his followers.
Who acts: San, latter, Prince · What happens: be, have, obey, know, confer, deem · To what, where: wishes, offices · 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 (San, latter, Prince), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 confused | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confused | cop |
| 5 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confused | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 obey | mark |
| 10 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wishes | det |
| 12 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 obey | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wishes | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 latter | det |
| 20 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 confer | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 confer | aux |
| 22 | confer | confer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 confer | obj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 those | advmod |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 those | case |
| 26 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 confer | obl |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 deemed | obj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 deemed | nsubj |
| 29 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 those | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 worthy | det |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 worthy | advmod |
| 32 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deemed | xcomp |
| 33 | among | among | ADP | _ | 35 followers | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 followers | nmod:poss |
| 35 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 worthy | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | San | confused property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | the wishes of the Prince | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | past | San | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | confer | would | the latter | offices | upon those | tree rules | |||
| 6 | deem | past | San | whom obj; worthy property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | wish | the Prince | nom wish «feeling 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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