Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 46
Ja-Jo-Mi, the unscrupulous, for the time being, was master of the land.
What happens: be · To what, where: master
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: 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 | 8 unscrupulous | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jo | 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 | _ | 8 unscrupulous | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 unscrupulous | det |
| 8 | unscrupulous | unscrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 master | obl |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 master | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 master | cop |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unscrupulous | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 master | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unscrupulous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | master | time | of the land | tree rules |
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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