Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 82
Such in substance were the reflections of the Prime Minister, but it would be necessary to find a pretext for the exile of Sun and Ja-Jo-Mi, the clever, was not long in devising a scheme.
What happens: be, find, not be, devise · To what, where: pretext, scheme
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: 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 reflections | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 substance | case |
| 3 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Such | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reflections | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reflections | det |
| 6 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 long | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Minister | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minister | det |
| 9 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 10 Minister | compound |
| 10 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reflections | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 necessary | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 necessary | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 necessary | expl |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 necessary | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 necessary | cop |
| 16 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reflections | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 necessary | csubj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pretext | det |
| 20 | pretext | pretext | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 exile | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 exile | det |
| 23 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pretext | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Sun | case |
| 25 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 exile | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Ja | cc |
| 27 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sun | conj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Jo | punct |
| 29 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sun | conj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Mi | punct |
| 31 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sun | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 clever | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 clever | det |
| 34 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Sun | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 reflections | punct |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 long | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 long | advmod |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 39 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 40 devising | mark |
| 40 | devising | devise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 long | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 scheme | det |
| 42 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 devising | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | such the reflections; of the Prime Minister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | would | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a pretext | for the exile of Sun and Ja and Jo and Mi | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pretext=Theme for exile=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | devise | gerund | a scheme | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=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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