Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 47
He hoped soon to be completely rid of the legitimate King and to finish his days tranquilly on the throne that he had so treacherously usurped.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: hope, be, finish, usurp · To what, where: throne
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hoped | nsubj |
| 2 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 hoped | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rid | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rid | cop |
| 6 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 7 rid | advmod |
| 7 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hoped | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 10 | legitimate | legitimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 King | amod |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rid | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 finish | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 finish | mark |
| 14 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hoped | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 days | nmod:poss |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 finish | obj |
| 17 | tranquilly | tranquilly | ADV | _ | 14 finish | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 throne | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 throne | det |
| 20 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finish | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 usurped | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 usurped | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 usurped | aux |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 usurped | advmod |
| 25 | treacherously | treacherously | ADV | _ | 26 usurped | advmod |
| 26 | usurped | usurp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 finish | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | Prince | soon property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | of the legitimate King; completely, rid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | finish | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the throne | day | tranquilly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | usurp | past · perfect | Prince | treacherously property | 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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