Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 36
Ja-Jo-Mi, feigning to acquiesce in the desires of his sovereign, withdrew backwards, saying:
Who acts: Ja · What happens: feign, acquiesce, withdraw, say, desire · To what, where: desires, sovereign · 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 (Ja), 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 | 17 withdrew | nsubj |
| 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feigning | punct |
| 7 | feigning | feign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Ja | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 acquiesce | mark |
| 9 | acquiesce | acquiesce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 feigning | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 desires | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 desires | det |
| 12 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 acquiesce | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sovereign | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 desires | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ja | punct |
| 17 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 17 withdrew | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saying | punct |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 withdrew | advcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feign | gerund | Ja and Mi not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | acquiesce | to-infinitive | Ja and Mi not said here | the desires of Mi's sovereign | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | withdraw | past | Ja and Mi | backwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Ja and Mi not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | desire | Mi's sovereign | nom desire «feeling 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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