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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 33

He consented to take charge of the maintenance of the old gentleman in consideration of the one hundred bags of rice which he took as a sort of deposit.

Who acts: heart, rice · What happens: consent, take, maintain, consider, sort · To what, where: charge, consideration, old gentleman, hundred bags, deposit

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 (heart, rice), 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

nsubjmarkxcompobjcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodcaseoblcasedetcompoundnummodnmodcasenmodnsubjnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblcasenmodpunctrootHePRONconsentedVERBtoPARTtakeVERBchargeNOUNofADPtheDETmaintenanceNOUNofADPtheDEToldADJgentlemanNOUNinADPconsiderationNOUNofADPtheDEToneNUMhundredNUMbagsNOUNofADPriceNOUNwhichPRONhePRONtookVERBasADPaDETsortNOUNofADPdepositNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 consentednsubj
2consentedconsentVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoPART_4 takemark
4taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf2 consentedxcomp
5chargechargeNOUNNumber=Sing4 takeobj
6ofofADP_8 maintenancecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 maintenancedet
8maintenancemaintenanceNOUNNumber=Sing4 takeobl
9ofofADP_12 gentlemancase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 gentlemandet
11oldoldADJDegree=Pos12 gentlemanamod
12gentlemangentlemanNOUNNumber=Sing8 maintenancenmod
13ininADP_14 considerationcase
14considerationconsiderationNOUNNumber=Sing4 takeobl
15ofofADP_19 bagscase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 bagsdet
17oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card18 hundredcompound
18hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 bagsnummod
19bagsbagNOUNNumber=Plur14 considerationnmod
20ofofADP_21 ricecase
21ricericeNOUNNumber=Sing19 bagsnmod
22whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel24 tooknsubj
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 tooknsubj
24tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 riceacl:relcl
25asasADP_27 sortcase
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 sortdet
27sortsortNOUNNumber=Sing24 tookobl
28ofofADP_29 depositcase
29depositdepositNOUNNumber=Sing27 sortnmod
30..PUNCT_2 consentedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1consentpastheartvn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2taketo-infinitiveheart not said herechargeconsideration of the hundred bags of riceof the maintenance of the old gentlemanvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent charge=Theme of maintenance=Initial_Location
3takepastriceas a sort of deposit; heart nsubjvn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as sort=Attribute
4maintainthe old gentlemannom maintenance «act transitive»: of=patient
5considerthe hundred bags of ricenom consideration «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6sortdepositnom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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