Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 93
The monarch had the Chief of Police brought to him at once and was given the forged letter.
Who acts: monarch, Chief · What happens: have, bring, give, forge · To what, where: King, forged letter
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 (monarch, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monarch | det |
| 2 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Chief | det |
| 5 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Police | case |
| 7 | Police | Police | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chief | nmod |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 brought | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 given | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 brought | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 letter | det |
| 17 | forged | forge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 letter | amod |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the monarch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | the Chief of Police | King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | the Chief of Police not said here | the forged letter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: letter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | forge | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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