Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 100
In the olden days I enjoyed a great deal of influence at the Court, but my enemy, Ja-Jo-Mi, had me sent into exile, with my best friend, Sun-Yen.
Who acts: I, best friend · What happens: enjoy, send, deal · To what, where: great deal, enemy, exile, influence
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, best friend), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 enjoyed | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 6 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enjoyed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 influence | case |
| 11 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deal | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Court | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Court | det |
| 14 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 influence | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sent | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 sent | cc |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ja | punct |
| 20 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 enemy | appos |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Jo | punct |
| 22 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ja | conj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Mi | punct |
| 24 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ja | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enemy | punct |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sent | aux |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 enjoyed | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 exile | case |
| 30 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 friend | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 friend | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 friend | nmod:poss |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 friend | amod |
| 35 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | obl:agent |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Sun | punct |
| 37 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 friend | appos |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Yen | punct |
| 39 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Sun | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past | I | a great deal of influence at the Court | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | my best friend | my enemy | exile | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | deal | influence at the Court | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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