Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 24
Su-Rung, much surprised, could not imagine that his adopted son had been elevated to the dignity of a King’s envoy, so he replied, coolly:
Who acts: Su, King · What happens: not imagine, adopt, elevate, reply · To what, where: adopted son, dignity
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 (Su, 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 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rung | punct |
| 3 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Su | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 surprised | punct |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 surprised | advmod |
| 6 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Su | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Su | punct |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagine | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 imagine | advmod |
| 10 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 elevated | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 elevated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 elevated | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 elevated | aux:pass |
| 17 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 imagine | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 dignity | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dignity | det |
| 20 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 elevated | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 envoy | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 envoy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 King | case |
| 25 | envoy | envoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dignity | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 replied | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 replied | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 replied | nsubj |
| 29 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagine | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 coolly | punct |
| 31 | coolly | coolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 replied | xcomp |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | could | Su and Rung | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | adopt | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | elevate | past · perfect · passive | Rung's adopted son | the dignity of a King's envoy | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to dignity=Destination | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | King | coolly property | vn respond-113 «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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