Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 21
When the criminal was brought face to face with the young General, the latter demanded:
What happens: bring, demand · To what, where: criminal, latter
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 criminal | det |
| 3 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 demanded | advcl |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 General | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 General | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 General | amod |
| 12 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 demanded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 demanded | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 latter | det |
| 15 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 demanded | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the criminal | to face | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination face=Theme | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | participle | the latter | with the young General | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=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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