Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 59
He promptly followed up Sun’s complaint and summoned his Prime Minister.
Who acts: conduct, Sun · What happens: follow up, summon, complain · To what, where: complaint, Prime Minister
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 (conduct, Sun), 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 | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 3 followed | advmod |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 followed | compound:prt |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 complaint | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sun | case |
| 7 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 summoned | cc |
| 9 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Minister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 12 Minister | compound |
| 12 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow up | past | conduct | Sun's complaint | promptly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | summon | past | conduct not said here | conduct's Prime Minister | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | complain | Sun | nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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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