Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 89
The Mandarin, whose exactions had been the primary cause of the revolt, was arrested and sent to the Capital together with the ring-leaders in the disturbance.
Who acts: exactions, primary cause · What happens: be, arrest, send, exact · To what, where: primary cause, Mandarin, Capital
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 (exactions, primary cause), 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 | 16 arrested | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cause | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 exactions | nmod:poss |
| 5 | exactions | exaction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cause | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cause | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cause | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cause | det |
| 9 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cause | amod |
| 10 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mandarin | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 revolt | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 revolt | det |
| 13 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cause | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mandarin | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 arrested | aux:pass |
| 16 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 arrested | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Capital | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Capital | det |
| 21 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 sent | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 leaders | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 leaders | det |
| 25 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leaders | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ring | punct |
| 27 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sent | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 disturbance | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 disturbance | det |
| 30 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leaders | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | the primary cause's exactions | the primary cause | of the revolt | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrest | past · passive | the Mandarin | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | send | participle | the Capital | with the ring leaders in the disturbance; together property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to capital=Destination | ||||
| 4 | exact | the primary cause | nom exaction «act 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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