Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 70
No time was lost; orders were issued to every Mandarin to send every blind man in his jurisdiction to the Capital.
What happens: lose, issue, send · To what, where: time, orders, Mandarin, blind man, jurisdiction
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: 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 issued | punct |
| 6 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 issued | aux:pass |
| 8 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lost | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Mandarin | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Mandarin | det |
| 11 | Mandarin | mandarin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 issued | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 send | mark |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 issued | advcl |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 man | det |
| 15 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 send | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 jurisdiction | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 jurisdiction | nmod:poss |
| 19 | jurisdiction | jurisdiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 send | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Capital | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Capital | det |
| 22 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 jurisdiction | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | no time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | issue | past · passive | orders | every Mandarin | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to mandarin=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | every blind man | man's jurisdiction to the Capital | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in jurisdiction=Destination |
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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