Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 72
This distance was considerable and, at the advice of his General, he decided that he would put his forces on the march as soon as possible.
Who acts: distance, King · What happens: be, decide, put · To what, where: forces, march · 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 (distance, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 distance | det |
| 2 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 considerable | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 considerable | cop |
| 4 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 advice | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 advice | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 advice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 advice | det |
| 9 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 considerable | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 General | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 General | nmod:poss |
| 12 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 advice | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 decided | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 decided | nsubj |
| 15 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 considerable | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 put | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 decided | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 forces | nmod:poss |
| 21 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 march | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 march | det |
| 24 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 soon | advmod |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 put | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 possible | mark |
| 28 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 soon | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 considerable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this distance | the advice of King's General conj; considerable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | King | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put | would | King | King's forces | the march | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme on march=Destination |
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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