Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 56
The Queen was a patient and attentive listener while the young General was telling the story of his adventures.
Who acts: Queen, young General, General · What happens: be, tell, adventure · To what, where: patient listener, story · 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 (Queen, young General, General), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 listener | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 listener | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 listener | det |
| 5 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 listener | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 attentive | cc |
| 7 | attentive | attentive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 patient | conj |
| 8 | listener | listener | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 telling | mark |
| 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 | 14 telling | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 telling | aux |
| 14 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 listener | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 telling | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 adventures | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 19 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 story | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 listener | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Queen | a patient listener | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | the young General | the story of General's adventures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | adventure | General | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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