Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 104
I have been deceived by a so-called religious man who had no other intention but a selfish desire to supplant his Master.
Who acts: religious man · What happens: deceive, call, have, supplant · To what, where: I, religious man, other intention, Master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (religious man), 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 | 4 deceived | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deceived | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 deceived | aux:pass |
| 4 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 so | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl |
| 10 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deceived | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 intention | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 intention | amod |
| 16 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 desire | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 desire | det |
| 19 | selfish | selfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 desire | amod |
| 20 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 intention | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 supplant | mark |
| 22 | supplant | supplant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 desire | acl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supplant | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | present · perfect · passive | a religious man | I | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a religious man not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a religious man | no other intention but a selfish desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient | ||||
| 4 | supplant | to-infinitive | a religious man not said here | man's Master | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme master=Co-Theme |
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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