Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 96
Simultaneously the King made a peaceful entry into the city at the head of his troops and the people turned over to him the usurping Minister and his General.
Who acts: King, people · What happens: make, turn over, usurp · To what, where: peaceful entry, city, usurping Minister, King
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 (King, people), 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 | Simultaneously | simultaneously | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 entry | det |
| 6 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 entry | amod |
| 7 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 troops | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 troops | nmod:poss |
| 16 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 head | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turned | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 turned | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Minister | det |
| 25 | usurping | usurp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 Minister | amod |
| 26 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 General | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 General | nmod:poss |
| 29 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Minister | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the King | a peaceful entry | the city | at the head of King's troops; simultaneously property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent entry=Material into city=Product | ||
| 2 | turn over | past | the people | the usurping Minister and King's General | King | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | usurp | gerund | 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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