Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 97
The King passed over to him the malicious letter, asking if he believed that Sun-Yen was really the author.
Who acts: King, Sun · What happens: pass over, ask, believe, be · To what, where: malicious letter, Mi, author · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Sun), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 passed | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 letter | det |
| 8 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 letter | amod |
| 9 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asking | punct |
| 11 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 believed | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 believed | nsubj |
| 14 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asking | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 author | mark |
| 16 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 author | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sun | punct |
| 18 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sun | flat |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 author | cop |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 author | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 author | det |
| 22 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 believed | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass over | past | the King | the malicious letter | Mi | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | believe a condition, not said to happen | past | King | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Sun | the author | tree rules |
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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