Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 160
The General’s orderly was at once commissioned to employ workmen who were to begin immediately to erect a suitable tribute to the old lady’s memory.
Who acts: workmen · What happens: commission, employ, begin, erect · To what, where: workmen, suitable tribute
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 (workmen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 General | det |
| 2 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 commissioned | nmod:desc |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 General | case |
| 4 | orderly | orderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 General | amod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 commissioned | aux:pass |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 commissioned | obl |
| 8 | commissioned | commission | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 employ | mark |
| 10 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 commissioned | xcomp |
| 11 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 employ | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 begin | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 begin | aux |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 begin | mark |
| 15 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 workmen | acl:relcl |
| 16 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 15 begin | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 erect | mark |
| 18 | erect | erect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 begin | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tribute | det |
| 20 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tribute | amod |
| 21 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 erect | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 memory | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lady | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lady | amod |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 memory | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 lady | case |
| 27 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 erect | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 commissioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commission | past · passive | 's the General | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | employ | to-infinitive | workmen | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | workmen | workmen not said here | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | erect | to-infinitive | workmen not said here | a suitable tribute | to the old lady's memory | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Product |
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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