Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 63
The King demanded of his Minister, “Have you nothing new to tell me?”
Who acts: King, you, nothing · What happens: demand, have, tell · To what, where: nothing, King · 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, you, nothing), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 demanded | nsubj |
| 3 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Minister | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Minister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 demanded | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Have | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Have | punct |
| 9 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 demanded | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 Have | nsubj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 Have | obj |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nothing | amod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 new | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 demanded | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | the King | of King's Minister | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | the King = king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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