Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 176
He expected to find Sun-Yen in a similar frame of mind but the Prime Minister spoke to him as he had done to the King.
Who acts: General, Prime Minister · What happens: expect, find, speak, do · To what, where: Sun Yen, similar frame, General · 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 (General, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 expected | nsubj |
| 2 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 expected | xcomp |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yen | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sun | punct |
| 7 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 frame | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 frame | det |
| 10 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 frame | amod |
| 11 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mind | case |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 frame | nmod |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 spoke | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Minister | det |
| 16 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 17 Minister | compound |
| 17 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 spoke | nsubj |
| 18 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 expected | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spoke | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 spoke | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 King | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 done | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | General | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | General not said here | Sun Yen | a similar frame of mind | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yen=Topic | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the Prime Minister | General | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | General | to the King | vn act-114-1 «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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