Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 141
Presently the young General’s orderly visited his master’s prison where he received orders to announce to the village the arrival of San-Syeng, a special envoy of the King, and to arrest the Mandarin at once.
Who acts: General, San · What happens: visit, receive, announce, arrest, arrive · To what, where: young General, orders, village, 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: who acts (General, 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 7 visited | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 General | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 General | amod |
| 4 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 visited | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 visited | aux:pass |
| 6 | orderly | orderly | ADV | _ | 7 visited | advmod |
| 7 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prison | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 master | case |
| 11 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visited | obj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 received | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 received | nsubj |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 prison | acl:relcl |
| 15 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 received | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 announce | mark |
| 17 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 received | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 announce | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 arrival | det |
| 22 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 village | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 San | case |
| 24 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 arrival | nmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Syeng | punct |
| 26 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 San | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 envoy | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 envoy | det |
| 29 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 envoy | amod |
| 30 | envoy | envoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 village | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 King | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 King | det |
| 33 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 envoy | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 arrest | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 arrest | cc |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 arrest | mark |
| 37 | arrest | arrest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 visited | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Mandarin | det |
| 39 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 arrest | obj |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 once | case |
| 41 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 37 arrest | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present · passive | the young General | General's master's prison obj; orderly, presently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | General | orders | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | announce speech: other | to-infinitive | General not said here | the village the arrival of San and a special envoy of the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to village=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | arrest | to-infinitive | the Mandarin | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mandarin=Patient | |||||
| 5 | arrive | San | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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