Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 42
All the office-holders at the Capital were devoted to Ja-Jo-Mi, for it was through him that they held their places.
Who acts: Capital, holders · What happens: devote, be, hold · To what, where: office holders, Ja, places
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 (Capital, holders), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 holders | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 holders | det |
| 3 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holders | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 office | punct |
| 5 | holders | holder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 devoted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Capital | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Capital | det |
| 8 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 holders | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 devoted | aux:pass |
| 10 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Ja | case |
| 12 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 devoted | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jo | punct |
| 14 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ja | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Mi | punct |
| 16 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ja | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 him | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 him | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 him | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 him | cop |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 devoted | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 held | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 held | nsubj |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 devoted | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 places | nmod:poss |
| 27 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 held | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 devoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devote | past · passive | all office holders at the Capital | Ja and Jo and Mi | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to ja=Goal | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Capital | through Mi | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | holders = holder | holders's places | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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