Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 53
It was decreed that San-Houni be banished and that he be forced to live on the island of Ko-Kum-To, a desolate, sparsely populated rock in the Yellow Sea.
Who acts: Houni · What happens: decree, banish, force, live, desolate, populate · To what, where: Minister, San Houni, Houni, island, populated rock, Yellow Sea
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 (Houni), 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 | 3 decreed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decreed | aux:pass |
| 3 | decreed | decree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 banished | mark |
| 5 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Houni | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 San | punct |
| 7 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 banished | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 banished | aux:pass |
| 9 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 decreed | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forced | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 forced | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 forced | aux:pass |
| 14 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 decreed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 forced | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Ko | case |
| 21 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 island | nmod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kum | punct |
| 23 | Kum | Kum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ko | conj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 To | punct |
| 25 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ko | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 desolate | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 desolate | det |
| 28 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decreed | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rock | punct |
| 30 | sparsely | sparsely | ADV | _ | 31 populated | advmod |
| 31 | populated | populate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 rock | amod |
| 32 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 desolate | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Sea | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Sea | det |
| 35 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Sea | amod |
| 36 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 rock | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decree | past · passive | Minister | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | banish | infinitive · passive | San Houni | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | force | infinitive · passive | Houni | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | Houni not said here | the island of Ko and Kum and To | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | ||||
| 5 | desolate | infinitive | populated rock | the Yellow Sea | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | populate | participle | sparsely 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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