Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 62
Although no one knew of it, he had conceived the scheme of usurping the throne but up to the present time had revealed his intentions to nobody.
Who acts: one, Mi, scheme · What happens: know, conceive, usurp, reveal, intend · To what, where: scheme, throne, intentions, nobody
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 (one, Mi, scheme), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 4 knew | mark |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 conceived | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 conceived | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 conceived | aux |
| 10 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scheme | det |
| 12 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conceived | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 usurping | mark |
| 14 | usurping | usurp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 scheme | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 throne | det |
| 16 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 usurping | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 revealed | cc |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 revealed | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | compound |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 revealed | obl |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 revealed | aux |
| 24 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 conceived | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 intentions | nmod:poss |
| 26 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 revealed | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 nobody | case |
| 28 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 revealed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 conceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | no one | of character | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | conceive | past · perfect | Mi | the scheme | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Theme | ||||
| 3 | usurp | gerund | the scheme not said here | the throne | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reveal | past · perfect | Mi not said here | Mi's intentions | nobody | time | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent intention=Topic to nobody=Recipient | ||
| 5 | intend | Mi | nom intention «cognition 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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