Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 19
The latter hastened--as all good servants do--to obey his master’s orders.
Who acts: good servants, master · What happens: hasten, do, obey, order · To what, where: orders
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 (good servants, master), 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 | 3 hastened | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hastened | amod |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 servants | amod |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 obey | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 obey | mark |
| 12 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 orders | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 master | case |
| 16 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 obey | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | good servants | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | good servants not said here | servant's master's orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | order | servant's master | nom order «communication 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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