Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 180
Ja-Jo-Mi had taken advantage of this to give all the important and lucrative offices to his followers.
What happens: take, give · To what, where: Ja, important offices, followers
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: 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 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ja | punct |
| 3 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mi | punct |
| 5 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 taken | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 taken | ccomp |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 offices | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 offices | det |
| 15 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 offices | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lucrative | cc |
| 17 | lucrative | lucrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 important | conj |
| 18 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 followers | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 followers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | Ja and Mi | of this; advantage obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | all important offices | Mi's followers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent office=Theme to follower=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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