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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 39

San-Syeng’s mother was beside herself and he sought to calm her, representing that he had no authority to put any man to death without an order from the King.

Who acts: mother, son · What happens: be, seek, calm, represent, have, put · To what, where: MOTHER, authority, man

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 (mother, son), 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

nmod:posspunctflatcasensubjcopcasensubjccnsubjmarkxcompobjpunctadvclmarknsubjccompdetobjmarkacldetobjcaseoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootSanPROPN-PUNCTSyengPROPN’sPARTmotherNOUNwasAUXbesideADPherselfPRONandCCONJhePRONsoughtVERBtoPARTcalmVERBherPRON,PUNCTrepresentingVERBthatSCONJhePRONhadVERBnoDETauthorityNOUNtoPARTputVERBanyDETmanNOUNtoADPdeathNOUNwithoutADPanDETorderNOUNfromADPtheDETKingPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SanSanPROPNNumber=Sing5 mothernmod:poss
2--PUNCT_1 Sanpunct
3SyengSyengPROPNNumber=Sing1 Sanflat
4’s'sPART_1 Sancase
5mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing8 herselfnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 herselfcop
7besidebesideADP_8 herselfcase
8herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes11 soughtnsubj
9andandCCONJ_11 soughtcc
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 soughtnsubj
11soughtseekVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12totoPART_13 calmmark
13calmcalmVERBVerbForm=Inf11 soughtxcomp
14hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 calmobj
15,,PUNCT_16 representingpunct
16representingrepresentVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 calmadvcl
17thatthatSCONJ_19 hadmark
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 hadnsubj
19hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 representingccomp
20nonoDETPronType=Neg21 authoritydet
21authorityauthorityNOUNNumber=Sing19 hadobj
22totoPART_23 putmark
23putputVERBVerbForm=Inf21 authorityacl
24anyanyDETPronType=Ind25 mandet
25manmanNOUNNumber=Sing23 putobj
26totoADP_27 deathcase
27deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing23 putobl
28withoutwithoutADP_30 ordercase
29anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 orderdet
30orderorderNOUNNumber=Sing23 putobl
31fromfromADP_33 Kingcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 Kingdet
33KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing30 ordernmod
34..PUNCT_11 soughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastSan's motherbeside MOTHERtree rules
2seekpastMOTHERson nsubjtree rules
3calm not said to happento-infinitiveMOTHER not said hereMOTHERvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4representgerundMOTHER not said herevn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5havepastsonno authorityvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient
6putto-infinitiveson not said hereno authority not said hereany manto death; without a order from the Kingvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Goal

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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