Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 79
“That fellow is an infernal nuisance and might bring down the King’s wrath upon my head.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: be, bring down · To what, where: infernal nuisance, wrath
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 (fellow), 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 | _ | 7 nuisance | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 fellow | det |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nuisance | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nuisance | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nuisance | det |
| 6 | infernal | infernal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nuisance | amod |
| 7 | nuisance | nuisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bring | cc |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nuisance | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 bring | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nuisance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that fellow | a infernal nuisance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring down in a quote | might | that fellow not said here | the King's wrath | upon my head | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme |
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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