Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 65
At these words, the King cried in an excited voice, “What, you, the Prime Minister, and you do not know that several of my people have just died by the roadside and that their death was caused from lack of food?
Who acts: King, you, people · What happens: cry, not know, die, cause, lack · To what, where: words, death, lack, food · 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, people), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 10 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 you | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 What | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Minister | det |
| 19 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 20 Minister | compound |
| 20 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 What | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 know | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 know | advmod |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 several | mark |
| 28 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 died | advcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 people | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 people | nmod:poss |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 several | obl |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 died | aux |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 died | advmod |
| 34 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 know | ccomp |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 roadside | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 roadside | det |
| 37 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 died | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 caused | cc |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 caused | mark |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 death | nmod:poss |
| 41 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 caused | aux:pass |
| 43 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 died | conj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 lack | case |
| 45 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 caused | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 food | case |
| 47 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lack | nmod |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the King | this words | in a excited voice; What the Prime Minister parataxis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | present · perfect | by the roadside | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | cause in a quote | past · passive | people's death | lack of food | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die in a quote | people | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | lack in a quote | food | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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