Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 70
While the populace was manifesting its delight in talk and other harmless ways, the King was busy with his preparations for the overthrowing of the usurper.
Who acts: populace, King · What happens: manifest, be, delight, prepare · To what, where: delight, talk
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 (populace, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 manifesting | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 populace | det |
| 3 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manifesting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 manifesting | aux |
| 5 | manifesting | manifest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 busy | advcl |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 delight | nmod:poss |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manifesting | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 talk | case |
| 9 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manifesting | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ways | cc |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ways | amod |
| 12 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ways | amod |
| 13 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talk | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 manifesting | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 busy | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 busy | cop |
| 18 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 preparations | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 preparations | nmod:poss |
| 21 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 busy | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 overthrowing | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 overthrowing | det |
| 24 | overthrowing | overthrowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 preparations | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 usurper | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 usurper | det |
| 27 | usurper | usurper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 overthrowing | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manifest | past · progressive | the populace | populace's delight | talk and other harmless ways | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the King | with King's preparations for the overthrowing of the usurper; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | delight | populace | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | prepare | King | for the overthrowing of the usurper | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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