Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 71
“However that may be,” said the King, “I command that this evening’s fete shall not continue an instant longer.”
Who acts: King, fete, evening · What happens: be, say, command, not continue, fete · To what, where: instant · 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, fete, evening), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 be | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 However | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 However | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 command | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 command | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 command | nsubj |
| 14 | command | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 continue | mark |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 evening | det |
| 17 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fete | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 evening | case |
| 19 | fete | fete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 continue | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 continue | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 continue | advmod |
| 22 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 command | advcl |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 instant | det |
| 24 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 continue | obj |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 continue | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | command in a quote | present | the King = king | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not continue in a quote | shall | this evening's fete | a instant | long property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent instant=Theme | |||
| 5 | fete in a quote | this evening | nom fete «event 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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