Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 170
Now it came to pass one day that he sent for him and said, “I am intending to lead an army against Jin-Han.
Who acts: office, King · What happens: come, pass, send, say, intend, lead · To what, where: army · 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 (office, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 sent | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 intending | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 intending | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 intending | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 intending | aux |
| 19 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lead | mark |
| 21 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 intending | xcomp |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 army | det |
| 23 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lead | obj |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 Han | case |
| 25 | Jin | Jin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Han | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Jin | punct |
| 27 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lead | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | office | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | office not said here | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past | King | for Minister | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | intend in a quote | present · progressive | King | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | lead not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | a army | against Jin Han | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme against han=Destination |
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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