Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 60
Our family belonged to the highest nobility and was always in good standing at the Court of the King.
Who acts: family · What happens: belong, be · To what, where: good standing
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | nsubj |
| 3 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 nobility | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nobility | det |
| 6 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 nobility | amod |
| 7 | nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 standing | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 standing | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 standing | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 standing | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 standing | amod |
| 13 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Court | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Court | det |
| 16 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Court | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | Our family | to the highest nobility | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Our family not said here | good standing | at the Court of the King; always property | 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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