Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 85
Then he would place it in the King’s hands with the story that it had been found on the road by a police agent.
Who acts: police agent · What happens: find · To what, where: place, road
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 (police agent), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 place | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 place | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 place | aux |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 place | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 place | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hands | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 found | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 found | aux:pass |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 story | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 agent | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 agent | det |
| 24 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 agent | compound |
| 25 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · passive | a police agent | place | the road | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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