Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 111
Before employing this ruse, San-Syeng had ordered his servant to come early the next day with his master’s horse and take his place before the prison gates.
Who acts: San · What happens: employ, order, come, take · To what, where: ruse, San, place, prison gates
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 (San), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 employing | mark |
| 2 | employing | employ | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ordered | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 ruse | det |
| 4 | ruse | ruse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 employing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 employing | punct |
| 6 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 San | punct |
| 8 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 San | flat |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ordered | aux |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servant | nmod:poss |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 master | case |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 take | cc |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 gates | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gates | det |
| 30 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gates | compound |
| 31 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 take | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | gerund | this ruse | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruse=Theme | |||||
| 2 | order | past · perfect · passive | San | San's servant obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | San not said here | day | with San's master's horse; early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | infinitive | San not said here | San's place | the prison gates | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme before gate=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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