Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 8
If our Mandarin were to appeal to the soldiers who are here and if his example were followed by the other Mandarins, Ja-Jo-Mi and his satellites could easily be put down.”
Who acts: Mandarin, soldiers, other Mandarins · What happens: appeal, be, follow, put down, exemplify · To what, where: example, satellites
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, soldiers, other Mandarins), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 appeal | mark |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Mandarin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 appeal | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeal | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 appeal | mark |
| 6 | appeal | appeal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 soldiers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldiers | det |
| 9 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 appeal | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 here | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 here | cop |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 followed | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 example | nmod:poss |
| 16 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 followed | aux:pass |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 here | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Mandarins | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Mandarins | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Mandarins | amod |
| 22 | Mandarins | mandarin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 followed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Ja | punct |
| 24 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mandarins | appos |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Jo | punct |
| 26 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ja | conj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Mi | punct |
| 28 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ja | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 put | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 satellites | nmod:poss |
| 31 | satellites | satellite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 put | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 put | aux |
| 33 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 35 put | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 put | aux:pass |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 Ja | conj |
| 36 | down | down | ADP | _ | 35 put | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeal | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appeal | past | our Mandarin | to the soldiers | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to soldier=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the soldiers | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the other Mandarins | Mandarin's example | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put down | could · passive | Mandarin's satellites | easily property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 5 | exemplify | Mandarin | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=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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