Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 55
Orders were issued for the preparation of a great banquet and for the dispatch of couriers to all corners of the Kingdom to announce to the people the coming of their King.
Who acts: people · What happens: issue, announce, come, prepare, dispatch · To what, where: Orders, people, great banquet, couriers
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 (people), 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 | Orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 issued | aux:pass |
| 3 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 preparation | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 preparation | det |
| 6 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 issued | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 banquet | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 banquet | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 banquet | amod |
| 10 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preparation | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dispatch | cc |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 dispatch | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dispatch | det |
| 14 | dispatch | dispatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 banquet | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 couriers | case |
| 16 | couriers | courier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dispatch | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 corners | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 corners | det |
| 19 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 issued | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Kingdom | det |
| 22 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 corners | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 announce | mark |
| 24 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 issued | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 people | det |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 announce | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coming | det |
| 29 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 people | acl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 King | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 King | nmod:poss |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 coming | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past · passive | Orders | for the preparation of a great banquet and the dispatch of couriers; to all corners of the Kingdom | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for preparation=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | to-infinitive | the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the people not said here | of Orders's King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | prepare | a great banquet and the dispatch of couriers | nom preparation «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | dispatch | couriers | nom dispatch «communication 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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