Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 40
Since the Prince would not relinquish his post with a good grace, he would commandeer it by force.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not relinquish, commandeer · To what, where: post
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 (Prince), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 relinquish | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 relinquish | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 relinquish | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 relinquish | advmod |
| 6 | relinquish | relinquish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 commandeer | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 post | nmod:poss |
| 8 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relinquish | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 grace | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 grace | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grace | amod |
| 12 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relinquish | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 relinquish | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 commandeer | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 commandeer | aux |
| 16 | commandeer | commandeer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 commandeer | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 force | case |
| 19 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commandeer | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 commandeer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not relinquish | would | the Prince | Prince's post | with a good grace | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent post=Theme | |||
| 2 | commandeer | would | Prince | post | by force | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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