Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 85
Ja-Jo-Mi, astounded by the news, summoned his General, at whom he cast the most violent reproaches and profane oaths (some of these we dare not print as the transcriber of this legend is a pious man).
Who acts: Ja, Mi, we · What happens: astound, summon, cast, dare, be · To what, where: Ja, General, violent reproaches, pious man
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 (Ja, Mi, we), 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 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ja | punct |
| 3 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mi | punct |
| 5 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 astounded | punct |
| 7 | astounded | astound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ja | acl:relcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 news | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 news | det |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 astounded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ja | punct |
| 12 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 General | nmod:poss |
| 14 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 summoned | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whom | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 cast | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cast | nsubj |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 summoned | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 reproaches | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 violent | advmod |
| 22 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 reproaches | amod |
| 23 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cast | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 oaths | cc |
| 25 | profane | profane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 oaths | amod |
| 26 | oaths | oath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reproaches | conj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 some | punct |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 oaths | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 these | case |
| 30 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 some | nmod |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 dare | nsubj |
| 32 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 some | parataxis |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 print | advmod |
| 34 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 dare | xcomp | ||
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 transcriber | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 transcriber | det |
| 37 | transcriber | transcriber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 man | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 legend | case |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 legend | det |
| 40 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 transcriber | nmod |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 man | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 man | det |
| 43 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 man | amod |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 print | appos |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 man | punct |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astound | participle | Ja and Mi not said here | by the news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | summon | past | Ja and Mi | Mi's General | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cast | past | Mi | the violent reproaches and profane oaths some of these | whom obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary reproach=Product | |||
| 4 | dare | present | we | print property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a pious man | as the transcriber of this legend | 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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