Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 26
Your father, my regretted master, on his death bed, requested me to look after the interests of the State while you were preparing to assume them yourself.
Who acts: father, you · What happens: regret, request, look, prepare, assume, interest · To what, where: me, interests, State
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 (father, you), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 requested | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | regretted | regret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 master | amod |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bed | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bed | compound |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 13 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 requested | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 requested | advcl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 interests | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 interests | det |
| 19 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 State | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 State | det |
| 22 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 interests | nmod |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 preparing | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 preparing | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 preparing | aux |
| 26 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 look | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 assume | mark |
| 28 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 preparing | xcomp |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 assume | obj |
| 30 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 assume | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regret | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | request | past | Your father and father's death bed | me | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Your father and father's death bed not said here | after the interests of the State | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | prepare | past · progressive | you | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | assume not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | interests = interest | yourself obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme yourself=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | interest | the State | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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