Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 12
The Governors, however, contented themselves with exchanging significant glances, but they did not utter a word in support of the Minister’s proposal.
Who acts: Governors, Minister · What happens: content, exchange, not utter, support, propose · To what, where: Governors, significant glances, word, support, proposal
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 (Governors, Minister), 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 Governors | det |
| 2 | Governors | Governor | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 contented | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Governors | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 contented | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 contented | obj |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 exchanging | mark |
| 9 | exchanging | exchange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 contented | advcl |
| 10 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 glances | amod |
| 11 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 exchanging | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 utter | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 utter | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 utter | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 utter | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 utter | advmod |
| 17 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 contented | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 word | det |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 utter | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 support | case |
| 21 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 utter | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 proposal | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Minister | det |
| 24 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Minister | case |
| 26 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 support | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 contented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | past | the Governors | Governors = governor | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | exchange | gerund | the Governors not said here | significant glances | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not utter speech: other | past · do-support | Governors = governor | a word | support of the Minister's proposal | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 4 | support | the Minister's proposal | nom support «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | propose | the Minister | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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