Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 111
He realized that he was the victim of a devilish plot but such was his stupefaction that he could utter nothing in his own defense.
Who acts: King · What happens: realize, be, utter · To what, where: victim, such stupefaction, nothing, own defense · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 realized | nsubj |
| 2 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 victim | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 victim | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 victim | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 victim | det |
| 7 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 realized | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 plot | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 plot | det |
| 10 | devilish | devilish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plot | amod |
| 11 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 victim | nmod |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 stupefaction | cc |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stupefaction | amod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stupefaction | cop |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 stupefaction | nmod:poss |
| 16 | stupefaction | stupefaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plot | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 utter | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 utter | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 utter | aux |
| 20 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stupefaction | acl |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 utter | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 defense | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 defense | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 defense | amod |
| 25 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 utter | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 realized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize | past | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | King | the victim | of a devilish plot but King's such stupefaction | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | King not said here | King's such stupefaction | King nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | utter speech: other | could | King | nothing | King's own defense | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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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