Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 153
My mother has learned that there is some one with me and has stationed a servant at the door with orders to kill any one who leaves my room.
Who acts: mother, one · What happens: learn, be, station, kill, leave · To what, where: servant, door, one, room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, one), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | aux |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | ccomp |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stationed | cc |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stationed | aux |
| 14 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 learned | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 servant | det |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stationed | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stationed | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 orders | case |
| 21 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stationed | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 kill | mark |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stationed | advcl |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kill | obj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 leaves | nsubj |
| 27 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 one | acl:relcl |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 room | nmod:poss |
| 29 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leaves | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · perfect | My mother | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | present | some one with me | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | station | present · perfect | My mother not said here | a servant | the door | with orders | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent servant=Theme at door=Destination | ||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | My mother not said here | any one | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | present | any one | my room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
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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