Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 78
He was greatly troubled because he feared that he might be removed from his office by the revelations of Sun-Yen.
Who acts: Minister, revelations · What happens: be, fear, remove, reveal · To what, where: Minister, office, Sun Yen
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 (Minister, revelations), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 troubled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 troubled | cop |
| 3 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 4 troubled | advmod |
| 4 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 feared | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 feared | nsubj |
| 7 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 troubled | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 removed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 removed | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 removed | aux:pass |
| 12 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 feared | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 office | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 office | nmod:poss |
| 15 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 removed | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 revelations | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 revelations | det |
| 18 | revelations | revelation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 removed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Yen | case |
| 20 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Yen | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sun | punct |
| 22 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 revelations | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Minister | greatly, troubled property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | Minister | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | remove | might · passive | the revelations of Sun Yen | Minister | Minister's office | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from office=Source | |||
| 4 | reveal | Sun Yen | nom revelation «communication 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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