Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 39
These words seemed deeply to impress the King who, with a trace of emotion in his voice, inquired of Sun, “Tell me, what should be done?
Who acts: words · What happens: seem, impress, inquire, tell, do · To what, where: King, me · 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 (words), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 impress | mark |
| 6 | impress | impress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 impress | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 King | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trace | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 trace | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 trace | det |
| 13 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impress | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 emotion | case |
| 15 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trace | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trace | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inquired | punct |
| 20 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 trace | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Sun | case |
| 22 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 inquired | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tell | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tell | punct |
| 25 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Tell | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 done | punct |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 done | obj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 done | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 done | aux:pass |
| 31 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Tell | ccomp |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | this words | deeply property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | impress | to-infinitive | this words not said here | the King | a trace of emotion in King's voice conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | participle | of Sun | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of sun=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | should · passive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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