Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 80
Then he wrote an ultimatum, which he ordered to be copied many times on strips of bamboo, and distributed widely in all parts of the city.
Who acts: San, ultimatum · What happens: write, order, copy, distribute · To what, where: ultimatum, strips, parts
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, ultimatum), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wrote | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ultimatum | det |
| 5 | ultimatum | ultimatum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 ordered | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ordered | nsubj |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ultimatum | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 copied | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 copied | aux:pass |
| 12 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ordered | xcomp |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 times | amod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 copied | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 strips | case |
| 16 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 copied | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bamboo | case |
| 18 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strips | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 distributed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 distributed | cc |
| 21 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrote | conj |
| 22 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 21 distributed | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 parts | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 parts | det |
| 25 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 distributed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 city | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 city | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 parts | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | San | a ultimatum | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ultimatum=Theme | |||
| 2 | order | past | San | a ultimatum | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | copy not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | a ultimatum not said here | strips of bamboo | time | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on strip=Destination | |||
| 4 | distribute | past | San not said here | all parts of the city | widely property | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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