Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 77
The Prime Minister, upon retiring to his office gave himself up to reflection upon the situation.
Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: retire, give up · To what, where: Minister, reflection
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 (Prime Minister), 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 | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Minister | punct |
| 5 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 6 retiring | mark |
| 6 | retiring | retire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 gave | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 office | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 office | nmod:poss |
| 9 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 retiring | obl |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 gave | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 reflection | case |
| 14 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 situation | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 situation | det |
| 17 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reflection | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | gerund | the Prime Minister not said here | to Minister's office | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | the Prime Minister | Minister | reflection upon the situation | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to reflection=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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