Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 11
The King of Korea was giving a grand and sumptuous banquet to the Governors of the various provinces and the ladies of the Court.
Who acts: King · What happens: give · To what, where: grand banquet, Governors
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 giving | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Korea | case |
| 4 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 giving | aux |
| 6 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 banquet | det |
| 8 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 banquet | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sumptuous | cc |
| 10 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grand | conj |
| 11 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 giving | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Governors | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Governors | det |
| 14 | Governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 giving | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 provinces | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 provinces | det |
| 17 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 provinces | amod |
| 18 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Governors | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ladies | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ladies | det |
| 21 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 provinces | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Court | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Court | det |
| 24 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ladies | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 giving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · progressive | the King of Korea | a grand banquet | the Governors of the various provinces and the ladies of the Court | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme to governor=Recipient |
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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