Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 80
To prevent a recurrence of such things there is but one thing to be done--to get rid of him by sending him into exile.
Who acts: such things · What happens: prevent, be, do, get, send, recur · To what, where: recurrence, King, exile
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 (such things), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 prevent | mark |
| 2 | prevent | prevent | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 recurrence | det |
| 4 | recurrence | recurrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prevent | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recurrence | nmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 thing | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thing | nummod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recurrence | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 done | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 done | aux:pass |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prevent | advcl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 prevent | conj |
| 19 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 get | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rid | obl |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 sending | mark |
| 23 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 get | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sending | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 exile | case |
| 26 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sending | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | to-infinitive | a recurrence of such things but one thing | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer recurrence=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | such things not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | send | gerund | King | exile | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | recur | such things | nom recurrence «event intransitive»: of=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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