Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 142
’Twas but a brief while and the orderly came to report to his master that his commands had been carried out.
Who acts: Twas, San · What happens: come, report, carry out, command · To what, where: commands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Twas, 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 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Twas | punct |
| 2 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 while | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 5 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 while | amod |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Twas | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 orderly | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 orderly | det |
| 9 | orderly | orderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 while | conj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 report | mark |
| 12 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 report | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 carried | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 commands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 carried | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 carried | aux:pass |
| 21 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 report | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 carried | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Twas but a brief while | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | report | to-infinitive | Twas but a brief while not said here | to San's master | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to master=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry out | past · perfect · passive | San's commands | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | command | San | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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