Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 108
When the King was informed of his arrest he went personally to interview the prisoner.
Who acts: King · What happens: inform, go, interview, arrest · To what, where: King, prisoner
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 informed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 informed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 informed | aux:pass |
| 5 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 arrest | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arrest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 informed | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | personally | personally | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 interview | mark |
| 13 | interview | interview | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prisoner | det |
| 15 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interview | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past · passive | the King | of King's arrest | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of arrest=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | past | King | personally property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | interview speech: other | to-infinitive | King not said here | the prisoner | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | arrest | King | nom arrest «act 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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