Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 61
They were arrested in the name of the Mandarin and were taken before him for a preliminary examination.
What happens: arrest, take, name · To what, where: jewels, name, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrested | aux:pass |
| 3 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 name | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrested | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mandarin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mandarin | det |
| 9 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taken | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 arrested | conj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taken | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 examination | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 examination | det |
| 17 | preliminary | preliminary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 examination | compound |
| 18 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrest | past · passive | jewels = jewel | the name of the Mandarin | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | before man | for a preliminary examination | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | name | the Mandarin | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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