Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 50
The conduct of the Prime Minister became an every-day topic of conversation.
Who acts: conduct · What happens: become, conduct · To what, where: day topic, Prime Minister
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 (conduct), 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 | 2 conduct | det |
| 2 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Minister | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Minister | det |
| 5 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 6 Minister | compound |
| 6 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 conduct | nmod |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 topic | det |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 every | punct |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 topic | compound |
| 12 | topic | topic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 conversation | case |
| 14 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 topic | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the conduct of the Prime Minister | a day topic of conversation | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | conduct | the Prime Minister | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=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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