Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 69
The Mandarin, very much irritated, gave orders that the execution of the prisoners should take place in three days.
Who acts: Mandarin, execution · What happens: irritate, give, take, execute · To what, where: Mandarin, orders, place, prisoners
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 (Mandarin, execution), 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 Mandarin | det |
| 2 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 irritated | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 irritated | advmod |
| 6 | irritated | irritate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Mandarin | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mandarin | punct |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 execution | det |
| 12 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prisoners | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prisoners | det |
| 15 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 execution | nmod |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gave | advcl |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | irritate | participle | the Mandarin not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the Mandarin | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | should | the execution of the prisoners | place | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 4 | execute | the prisoners | nom execution «act 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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