Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 22
Our Master, the King, wishes to undertake an expedition against Jin-Han to avenge his father’s defeat.
Who acts: Master, father · What happens: wish, undertake, avenge, defeat · To what, where: expedition, defeat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Master, father), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wishes | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Master | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 7 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 undertake | mark |
| 9 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wishes | ccomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 expedition | det |
| 11 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 undertake | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 Jin | case |
| 13 | Jin | Jin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 expedition | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Han | punct |
| 15 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Jin | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 avenge | mark |
| 17 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 undertake | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 defeat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 avenge | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | Our Master | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | undertake not said to happen | to-infinitive | a expedition | against Jin and Han | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | avenge | to-infinitive | Master's father's defeat | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | defeat | Master's father | nom defeat «event transitive»: 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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