Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 103
A cruel Mandarin has condemned them to death.
What happens: condemn · To what, where: cruel Mandarin
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Mandarin | det |
| 2 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Mandarin | amod |
| 3 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 condemned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 condemned | aux |
| 5 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 condemned | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 condemned | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 condemned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | present · perfect · passive | a cruel Mandarin | to death; Ko obj | 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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