Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 81
This proclamation announced the arrival of the legitimate King at the head of his army and that His Majesty came to give battle to the unfaithful Minister, Ja-Jo-Mi, the unscrupulous.
Who acts: proclamation, Majesty, legitimate King · What happens: announce, come, give, arrive · To what, where: arrival, head, battle, unfaithful Minister
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 (proclamation, Majesty, legitimate 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 proclamation | det |
| 2 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announced | nsubj |
| 3 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arrival | det |
| 5 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announced | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 8 | legitimate | legitimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 King | amod |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arrival | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announced | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 army | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 army | nmod:poss |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 18 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 announced | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 give | mark |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 came | xcomp |
| 23 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Minister | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Minister | det |
| 26 | unfaithful | unfaithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Minister | amod |
| 27 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Ja | punct |
| 29 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Minister | appos |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Jo | punct |
| 31 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ja | conj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Mi | punct |
| 33 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ja | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 unscrupulous | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 unscrupulous | det |
| 36 | unscrupulous | unscrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Ja | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | this proclamation | the arrival of the legitimate King | the head of proclamation's army | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | proclamation's Majesty | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | proclamation's Majesty not said here | battle | the unfaithful Minister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent battle=Theme to minister=Recipient | |||
| 4 | arrive | the legitimate King | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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