Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 89
Then the assassin, judging it indiscreet to continue in the direction of Ko-Kum-To, changed the course of his vessel to a spot he was well acquainted with.
Who acts: assassin · What happens: judge, continue, change, acquaint · To what, where: assassin, direction, course
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 assassin | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 assassin | det |
| 3 | assassin | assassin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 judging | punct |
| 5 | judging | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 assassin | acl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 judging | obj |
| 7 | indiscreet | indiscreet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 judging | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 continue | mark |
| 9 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 indiscreet | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 direction | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 direction | det |
| 12 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continue | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ko | case |
| 14 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 direction | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kum | punct |
| 16 | Kum | Kum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ko | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 To | punct |
| 18 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ko | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 assassin | punct |
| 20 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 course | det |
| 22 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 vessel | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 25 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 course | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 spot | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 spot | det |
| 28 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 changed | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 acquainted | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 acquainted | advmod |
| 32 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 spot | acl:relcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 acquainted | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | gerund | the assassin not said here | assassin | indiscreet obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue | to-infinitive | the assassin not said here | the direction of Ko and Kum and To | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | past | the assassin | the course of course's vessel | to a spot | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient | |||
| 4 | acquaint speech: other | past · passive | course | well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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