Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 103
As for the annoyance which he caused you a short time ago, he was the principal instigator of that himself.”
Who acts: annoyance, King · What happens: cause, be · To what, where: you, principal instigator
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 (annoyance, 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 annoyance | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 annoyance | det |
| 4 | annoyance | annoyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 instigator | obl |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 caused | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caused | nsubj |
| 7 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 annoyance | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 caused | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 caused | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 annoyance | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 instigator | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 instigator | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 instigator | det |
| 17 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 instigator | amod |
| 18 | instigator | instigator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 instigator | nmod |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 that | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 instigator | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 instigator | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the annoyance | you | King nsubj; ago property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition you=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | King | the principal instigator | as the annoyance; of that King | tree rules |
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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