Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 179
The King had entire confidence in him and placed in his hands the administration of the government.
Who acts: King · What happens: have, place, administer · To what, where: entire confidence, hands, government
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 (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 confidence | amod |
| 5 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 placed | cc |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 placed | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 administration | det |
| 14 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl:agent |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 government | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 government | det |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 administration | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | entire confidence | in dignitary | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient | |||
| 2 | place | participle | the King not said here | dignitary's hands | the administration of the government obl:agent | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hand=Destination | |||
| 3 | administer | the government | nom administration «act 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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