Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 98
The Prime Minister pretended to read the communication.
Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: pretend, read · To what, where: communication
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 (Prime Minister), 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 | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pretended | nsubj |
| 4 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pretended | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 communication | det |
| 8 | communication | communication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 read | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | the Prime Minister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | the Prime Minister not said here | the communication | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent communication=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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