Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 100
“Sire,” he said, “it often happens that we are deceived by those whom we deem most faithful.
Who acts: King, it, those, we · What happens: say, happen, deceive, deem · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, it, those, we), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happens | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 happens | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 happens | nsubj |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 happens | advmod |
| 11 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 deceived | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 deceived | aux:pass |
| 15 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 happens | xcomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 those | case |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 deceived | obl:agent |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 deem | obj |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 deem | nsubj |
| 20 | deem | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 faithful | advmod |
| 22 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deem | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | Sire ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | present | it | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deceive in a quote | present · passive | those | we | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | deem in a quote | present | we | whom obj; faithful property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute |
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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