Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 83
On leaving the Capital, San-Syeng had a three-fold mission in view: to make certain of the faithful execution of the King’s commands, to find his parents, and to rejoin his wife.
Who acts: San, King · What happens: leave, have, make, find, rejoin, execute · To what, where: Capital, fold mission, view, parents, wife, 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 (San, King), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | mark |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 had | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Capital | det |
| 4 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaving | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaving | punct |
| 6 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 San | punct |
| 8 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 San | flat |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mission | det |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 fold | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 three | punct |
| 13 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mission | compound |
| 14 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 view | case |
| 16 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mission | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | parataxis |
| 20 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 execution | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 execution | det |
| 23 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 execution | amod |
| 24 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 certain | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 commands | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 commands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 King | case |
| 29 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 execution | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 find | punct |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 find | mark |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 parents | nmod:poss |
| 34 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 find | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rejoin | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rejoin | cc |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 rejoin | mark |
| 38 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 wife | nmod:poss |
| 40 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rejoin | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | San not said here | the Capital | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | San | a fold mission | view | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | certain property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | San's parents | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Topic | |||||
| 5 | rejoin | to-infinitive | San's wife | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||||
| 6 | execute | the King's commands | nom execution «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | command | the King | 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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