Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 90
He carried the note directly to his chief so that the latter could look over the contents and restore it to its owner.
Who acts: agent, latter · What happens: carry, look, restore · To what, where: note, chief, owner
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 (agent, latter), 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 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 note | det |
| 4 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chief | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chief | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 look | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 latter | det |
| 12 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 look | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | aux |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 carried | advcl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 contents | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 contents | det |
| 17 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 restore | cc |
| 19 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 look | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 restore | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 owner | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 owner | nmod:poss |
| 23 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 restore | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | agent | the note | agent's chief | directly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent note=Theme to chief=Destination | ||
| 2 | look | could | the latter | over the contents | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over contents=Theme | ||||
| 3 | restore | infinitive | the latter not said here | note | note's owner | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to owner=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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