Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 127
It would be advisable, he insisted, to make haste for the rage of Su-Rung, if he captured them, would be terrible.
Who acts: assassin, contrast, Su · What happens: be, insist, make, capture, rage · To what, where: haste, Su · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (assassin, contrast, Su), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 advisable | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 advisable | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 advisable | cop |
| 4 | advisable | advisable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 insisted | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 insisted | nsubj |
| 7 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 advisable | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 insisted | ccomp |
| 11 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rage | det |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Su | case |
| 16 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rage | nmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Rung | punct |
| 18 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Su | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 captured | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 captured | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 captured | nsubj |
| 22 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 captured | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 terrible | punct |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 terrible | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 terrible | cop |
| 27 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 advisable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | assassin | advisable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | insist speech: other | past | contrast | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | haste | for the rage of Su and Rung | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent haste=Product for rage=Asset | ||||
| 4 | capture a condition, not said to happen | past | contrast | Su | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | would | terrible property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | rage | Su and Rung | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: of=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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