Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 73
Sire, as soon as I have carried them out I shall return to my office and secure what testimony I can about this matter.
Who acts: I · What happens: carry out, return, secure, testimony · To what, where: orders, Sire
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 (I), 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 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 return | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 return | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 carried | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | aux |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 return | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 carried | compound:prt |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 return | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 return | aux |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sire | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 office | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 office | nmod:poss |
| 16 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 return | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 secure | cc |
| 18 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 return | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 testimony | nsubj |
| 20 | testimony | testimony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 secure | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 can | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 testimony | acl:relcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 matter | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 matter | det |
| 25 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 secure | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | present · perfect | I | orders = order | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | return | shall | I | to my office result; soon property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to office=Result | ||||
| 3 | secure | infinitive | I not said here | about this matter | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | testimony | what nsubj | tree rules |
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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