Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 73
I am obliged to obey the commands of the Mandarin, but I do not hesitate to say that he is one of the vilest of men.”
Who acts: I, Mandarin · What happens: oblige, obey, not hesitate, say, be, command · To what, where: I, commands, one, Mandarin · 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 (I, Mandarin), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 obey | mark |
| 5 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 commands | det |
| 7 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 obey | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Mandarin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mandarin | det |
| 10 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 commands | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hesitate | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hesitate | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hesitate | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hesitate | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 hesitate | advmod |
| 16 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hesitate | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 one | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 say | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 vilest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 vilest | det |
| 25 | vilest | vile | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 vilest | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | obey | to-infinitive | the commands of the Mandarin | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not hesitate | present · do-support | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | Mandarin | one | of the vilest of men | tree rules | |||
| 6 | command | the Mandarin | nom command «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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