Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 102
I have known for a long while that he has been thinking and dreaming of taking your place on the throne.
Who acts: I, King · What happens: know, think, dream, take · To what, where: place, throne
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 (I, King), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 known | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 long | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 long | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 known | obl |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 thinking | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 thinking | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thinking | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thinking | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 thinking | aux |
| 12 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 known | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dreaming | cc |
| 14 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thinking | conj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 taking | mark |
| 16 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thinking | advcl |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taking | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 throne | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 throne | det |
| 21 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · perfect | I | for a long | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · perfect · progressive | King | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dream | gerund | King not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | King not said here | your place | the throne | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on throne=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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