Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 162
The King offered them a few words of condolence and said: “You shall be my Prime Minister,” indicating Sun-Yen.
Who acts: King · What happens: offer, say, be, indicate, word · To what, where: few words, eyes, Prime Minister, Sun Yen, condolence · 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 (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 | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 offered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 condolence | case |
| 9 | condolence | condolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 offered | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 You | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 You | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 Minister | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Minister | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Minister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 19 Minister | compound |
| 19 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 You | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 You | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 22 | indicating | indicate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 23 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Yen | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sun | punct |
| 25 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 indicating | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | the King | a few words of condolence | eyes = eye | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal word=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King not said here | You ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | the King not said here | my Prime Minister | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | indicate | gerund | the King not said here | Sun Yen | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yen=Topic | ||||
| 5 | word | condolence | nom word «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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