Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 99
He saw that the King was in a state of uncertainty and he determined to take advantage of it in order to ruin Sun-Yen, once and for all time.
Who acts: Minister, King · What happens: see, be, determine, take, ruin · To what, where: state, advantage, order, Sun · 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 (Minister, King), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 state | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 state | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 state | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 state | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 state | det |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 uncertainty | case |
| 11 | uncertainty | uncertainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 state | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 determined | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 determined | nsubj |
| 14 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 determined | xcomp |
| 17 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 advantage | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 order | case |
| 21 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 ruin | mark |
| 23 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 24 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ruin | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Yen | punct |
| 26 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sun | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 once | punct |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 ruin | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 time | cc |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 time | det |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 once | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Minister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the King | a state | of uncertainty | tree rules | |||
| 3 | determine | past | Minister | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | Minister not said here | advantage of advantage | order | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent advantage=Value in order=Location | |||
| 5 | ruin | to-infinitive | Minister not said here | Sun and Yen | once property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=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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