Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 4
The Prime Minister, who was present at this scene, tried to calm the young Prince with profuse and hypocritical condolences.
Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: be, try, calm · To what, where: scene, young 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: who acts (Prime 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 present | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 present | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 present | cop |
| 7 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Minister | amod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 scene | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 scene | det |
| 10 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 present | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Minister | punct |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 calm | mark |
| 14 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Prince | amod |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 calm | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 condolences | case |
| 19 | profuse | profuse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 condolences | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hypocritical | cc |
| 21 | hypocritical | hypocritical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 profuse | conj |
| 22 | condolences | condolence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 calm | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prime Minister | this scene | present property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | past | the Prime Minister | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | calm not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prime Minister not said here | the young Prince | with profuse condolences | 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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