Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 177
It was Ja-Jo-Mi, the Prime Minister, who had been the chief cause of all the evils which had come to Sun-Yen and San-Houni.
Who acts: V, Ja, chief cause · What happens: be, come · To what, where: Ja, chief cause, Sun Yen
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 (V, Ja, chief cause), 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 Ja | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Ja | cop |
| 3 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jo | punct |
| 5 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ja | flat |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mi | punct |
| 7 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ja | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Minister | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Minister | det |
| 10 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 11 Minister | compound |
| 11 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ja | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cause | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 cause | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cause | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cause | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cause | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cause | amod |
| 18 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ja | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 evils | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 evils | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 evils | det |
| 22 | evils | evil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cause | nmod |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cause | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Yen | case |
| 27 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Yen | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Sun | punct |
| 29 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 San | cc |
| 31 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Yen | conj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Houni | punct |
| 33 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 San | flat |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ja | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | V | Ja and Mi and the Prime Minister | Mi conj; the Prime Minister conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | Ja and Mi and the Prime Minister | the chief cause | of all evils | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | the chief cause | Sun Yen and San | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to yen=Initial_Location |
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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