Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 84
Suddenly it was announced to Ja-Jo-Mi that the King’s son was at the gates of the Capital with an army and that there was a great disturbance among the people.
Who acts: son · What happens: announce, be · To what, where: feast, Ja, gates, great disturbance · 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 (son), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 announced | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 announced | aux:pass |
| 4 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Ja | case |
| 6 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 announced | obl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ja | punct |
| 8 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ja | flat |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mi | punct |
| 10 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ja | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 gates | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gates | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gates | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 gates | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gates | det |
| 19 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 announced | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Capital | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Capital | det |
| 22 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gates | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 army | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gates | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 disturbance | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 was | mark |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 was | expl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 disturbance | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 disturbance | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 disturbance | amod |
| 32 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 army | conj |
| 33 | among | among | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 disturbance | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past · passive | feast | Ja and Mi | suddenly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ja=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the King's son | the gates | of the Capital; with a army and a great disturbance | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the King's son not said here | a great disturbance | among the people | tree rules |
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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