Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 83
He resolved to write a letter to San-Houni full of bitter criticisms and threats against the King.
Who acts: Minister · What happens: resolve, write · To what, where: letter, San
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), 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 | 2 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 write | mark |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 resolved | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 letter | det |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 write | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 San | case |
| 8 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 write | obl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Houni | punct |
| 10 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 San | flat |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 write | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 criticisms | case |
| 13 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 criticisms | amod |
| 14 | criticisms | criticism | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 threats | cc |
| 16 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 criticisms | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 criticisms | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | Minister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | write | to-infinitive | Minister not said here | a letter | San | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to san=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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