Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 16
The King approved Sun-Yen’s suggestion and orders were issued that an immense feast be prepared.
Who acts: King, immense feast, Sun Yen · What happens: approve, issue, be, suggest · To what, where: suggestion
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, immense feast, Sun Yen), 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 | 3 approved | nsubj |
| 3 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Yen | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sun | punct |
| 6 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 suggestion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Yen | case |
| 8 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 orders | cc |
| 10 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 suggestion | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 issued | aux:pass |
| 12 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 approved | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 prepared | mark |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 15 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feast | amod |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prepared | nsubj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 prepared | cop |
| 18 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 issued | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past | the King | vn allow-64.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | issue | past · passive | Sun Yen's suggestion and orders | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | a immense feast | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suggest | Sun Yen | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: 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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