Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 29
Ja-Jo-Mi had hoped to convince the Prince with these arguments.
What happens: hope, convince · To what, where: Ja, Prince
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: 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 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ja | punct |
| 3 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mi | punct |
| 5 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hoped | aux |
| 7 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 convince | mark |
| 9 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hoped | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 convince | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 arguments | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 arguments | det |
| 14 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 convince | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past · perfect · passive | Ja and Mi | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | convince not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince | with this arguments | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer |
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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