Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 139
The King, a witness of this scene--to him incomprehensible--did not delay long in finding out the cause, and he cried:
Who acts: King · What happens: not delay, find out, cry · To what, where: cause
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 delay | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 witness | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 witness | det |
| 5 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 scene | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 scene | det |
| 8 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 witness | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 him | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 King | nmod |
| 12 | incomprehensible | incomprehensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 him | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 delay | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 delay | advmod |
| 16 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 cried | parataxis |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 delay | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 finding | mark |
| 19 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 delay | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 finding | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cause | det |
| 22 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finding | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cried | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cried | nsubj |
| 26 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not delay | past · do-support | the King to prediction | long property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find out | gerund | the King to prediction not said here | the cause | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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