Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 24
“You are doubtless well aware that, according to the precepts laid down by the venerable philosopher, Kong-Ji, no one can reign in Korea before attaining a certain age.
Who acts: You, Kong · What happens: be, accord, lay down, reign, attain · To what, where: precepts, Korea, certain age · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Kong), 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 | _ | 6 aware | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 aware | cop |
| 4 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 aware | amod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 aware | advmod |
| 6 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 reign | mark |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 that | punct |
| 9 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 precepts | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 according | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 precepts | det |
| 12 | precepts | precept | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 reign | obl |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 precepts | acl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 laid | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 philosopher | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 philosopher | det |
| 17 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 philosopher | amod |
| 18 | philosopher | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 precepts | punct |
| 20 | Kong | Kong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 reign | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ji | punct |
| 22 | Ji | Ji | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Kong | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reign | punct |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reign | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 reign | aux |
| 27 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 aware | ccomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Korea | case |
| 29 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 reign | obl |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 attaining | mark |
| 31 | attaining | attain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 reign | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 age | det |
| 33 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 age | amod |
| 34 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 attaining | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | aware, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accord in a quote | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lay down in a quote | participle | the precepts not said here | by the venerable philosopher | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by philosopher=Destination | ||||
| 4 | reign in a quote | can | Kong and Ji | Korea | accord the precepts; no one nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | attain in a quote | gerund | Kong and Ji not said here | a certain age | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=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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