Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 9
“But once Ja-Jo-Mi is deposed, whom can they place upon the throne?”
What happens: depose, place · To what, where: Jo Mi
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 deposed | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 deposed | cc |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 10 deposed | mark |
| 4 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Jo | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ja | punct |
| 6 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mi | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jo | punct |
| 8 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 deposed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 deposed | aux:pass |
| 10 | deposed | depose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 place | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | aux |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 place | nsubj |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deposed | obl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 throne | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 deposed | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 deposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depose in a quote | present · passive | Jo Mi | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | place in a quote | can | upon the throne; whom nsubj; satellites = satellite nsubj | 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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