Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 65
The King and his General assured her that they would use all possible means within their power to find the Queen’s father.
Who acts: King, words · What happens: assure, use, mean, find · To what, where: Heaven, possible, father · 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 (King, words), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 assured | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 General | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 General | nmod:poss |
| 5 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 assured | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 use | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 use | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 use | aux |
| 11 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 means | csubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 possible | det |
| 13 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 use | obj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 assured | parataxis |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 power | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 power | nmod:poss |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 means | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Queen | det |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Queen | case |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | the King and King's General | Heaven | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | use | would | words = word | all possible | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possible=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | within words's power | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the Queen's father | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
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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