Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 80
“The King,” declared this dignitary, “desires to assemble all the blind men of the Kingdom at a banquet.
Who acts: King, desires · What happens: declare, assemble · To what, where: dignitary, blind men, banquet · 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, desires), 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 | _ | 6 declared | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 6 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 dignitary | det |
| 8 | dignitary | dignitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assemble | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 assemble | punct |
| 11 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 assemble | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 assemble | mark |
| 13 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 declared | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 men | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 assemble | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kingdom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kingdom | det |
| 20 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 banquet | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 banquet | det |
| 23 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assemble | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the King | this dignitary | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dignitary=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | assemble in a quote | to-infinitive | desires | all blind men of the Kingdom | a banquet | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
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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