Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 181
For example, he discharged in disgrace a general whom he disliked and replaced him with one of his most zealous but incompetent partisans.
Who acts: Mi · What happens: discharge, dislike, replace · To what, where: general, disgrace, Mi
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 (Mi), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discharged | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 discharged | nsubj |
| 5 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 disgrace | case |
| 7 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discharged | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 general | det |
| 9 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 discharged | obl |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 disliked | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 disliked | nsubj |
| 12 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discharged | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 replaced | cc |
| 14 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disliked | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 replaced | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 replaced | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 partisans | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 partisans | nmod:poss |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 zealous | advmod |
| 21 | zealous | zealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 partisans | amod |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 incompetent | cc |
| 23 | incompetent | incompetent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 zealous | conj |
| 24 | partisans | partisan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discharged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discharge | participle | Mi | a general | disgrace | for example | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | dislike | past | Mi | whom obj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | replace | past | Mi not said here | Mi | with one of Mi's zealous partisans | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme he=Location with one=Co-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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