Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 55
When his mission was concluded, he sought audience with the King for the purpose of reporting what he had seen, heard, and done.
Who acts: King, purpose · What happens: conclude, seek, report, see, hear · To what, where: mission, audience
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 (King, purpose), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 concluded | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mission | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concluded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 concluded | aux:pass |
| 5 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sought | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 concluded | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sought | nsubj |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 audience | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 purpose | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 purpose | det |
| 15 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | obl |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 reporting | mark |
| 17 | reporting | report | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 purpose | acl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 seen | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 reporting | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 seen | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 done | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 done | cc |
| 26 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sought | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past · passive | King's mission | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek | past | King | audience | with the King; for the purpose | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent audience=Location for purpose=Theme | |||
| 3 | report | gerund | the purpose not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | King | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hear | participle | King not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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