Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 67
“Well, let’s collect all the blind men in the Kingdom; invite them to a big feast.
Who acts: you, ’s · What happens: let, collect, invite · To what, where: ’s, blind men, Kingdom, possible
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 (you, ’s), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 men | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 collect | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Kingdom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Kingdom | det |
| 13 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 invite | punct |
| 15 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 invite | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 feast | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 feast | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feast | amod |
| 20 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 invite | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | ’s | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | collect in a quote | infinitive | ’s not said here | all blind men | the Kingdom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | invite in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | possible | to a big feast | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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