Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 168
The new Prime Minister was not long in assuming his office.
Who acts: new Prime Minister · What happens: not be, assume · To what, where: office
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 (new Prime Minister), 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 | 4 Minister | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Minister | amod |
| 3 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 4 Minister | compound |
| 4 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 long | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 assuming | mark |
| 9 | assuming | assume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 long | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 office | nmod:poss |
| 11 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assuming | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the new Prime Minister | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assume | gerund | the new Prime Minister not said here | Minister's office | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=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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