Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 38
Thus the ambitious Minister had encountered, in the energy of the young King, a formidable obstruction in the path of his plans.
Who acts: ambitious Minister, Minister · What happens: encounter, plan · To what, where: energy
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 (ambitious Minister, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 encountered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Minister | det |
| 3 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Minister | amod |
| 4 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 encountered | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 encountered | aux |
| 6 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 energy | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 energy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 energy | det |
| 10 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 encountered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 King | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 energy | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obstruction | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 obstruction | det |
| 17 | formidable | formidable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 obstruction | amod |
| 18 | obstruction | obstruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 King | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 path | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 path | det |
| 21 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obstruction | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 plans | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 plans | nmod:poss |
| 24 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 path | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter | past · perfect | the ambitious Minister | the energy of the young King | thus property | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer energy=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | plan | Minister | nom plan «cognition transitive»: 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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