Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 95
Ja-Jo-Mi and his General were seized--the palace set on fire.
What happens: seize, set · To what, where: Ja, palace, fire
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 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jo | 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 General | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 General | nmod:poss |
| 8 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | aux:pass |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 palace | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 palace | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | Ja and Mi and Mi's General | the palace obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | participle | the palace not said here | fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination |
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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