Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 92
Desiring to give a proof of his zeal, he ran to the palace and in a mysterious manner demanded an immediate audience with the King.
Who acts: chief · What happens: desire, give, run, demand, proof · To what, where: proof, immediate audience, mysterious manner, zeal
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 (chief), 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 | Desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ran | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 give | mark |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Desiring | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 proof | det |
| 5 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 zeal | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 zeal | nmod:poss |
| 8 | zeal | zeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proof | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Desiring | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 demanded | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 manner | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 manner | det |
| 18 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 manner | amod |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 demanded | obl |
| 20 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 audience | det |
| 22 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 audience | amod |
| 23 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 demanded | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 King | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 audience | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | gerund | chief not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | chief not said here | a proof of chief's zeal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | chief | to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | chief not said here | a immediate audience | a mysterious manner | with the King | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Precondition | ||
| 5 | proof | chief's zeal | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=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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