Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 10
“Moreover, the dying King appointed me to rule until his son should be capable of taking the throne.”
Who acts: dying King, son · What happens: die, appoint, rule, be, take · To what, where: decision, throne
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dying King, son), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 appointed | punct |
| 2 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 7 appointed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moreover | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 5 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 King | amod |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 appointed | nsubj |
| 7 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 appointed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rule | mark |
| 10 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 appointed | xcomp |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 capable | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 capable | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 capable | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 capable | cop |
| 16 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rule | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 taking | mark |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 capable | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 throne | det |
| 20 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appointed | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | appoint in a quote | past | the dying King | this decision = decision | moreover property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rule in a quote | to-infinitive | the dying King not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | should | King's son | capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | gerund | King's son not said here | the throne | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=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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