Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 57
“It is rumored that the Prime Minister, who always did have a detestable reputation, has just crowned his infamy by exiling the King’s son.
Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: rumor, have, crown, exile · To what, where: wont, detestable reputation, Prime Minister, son
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 (Prime Minister), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rumored | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rumored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rumored | aux:pass |
| 4 | rumored | rumor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 crowned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Minister | det |
| 7 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 8 Minister | compound |
| 8 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 crowned | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 have | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 have | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Minister | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 reputation | det |
| 15 | detestable | detestable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reputation | amod |
| 16 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Minister | punct |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 crowned | aux |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 crowned | advmod |
| 20 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rumored | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 infamy | nmod:poss |
| 22 | infamy | infamy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crowned | obj |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 exiling | mark |
| 24 | exiling | exile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 crowned | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 exiling | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rumored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rumor in a quote | present · passive | wont | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past · do-support | the Prime Minister | a detestable reputation | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient | |||
| 3 | crown in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Prime Minister | Minister's infamy obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme infamy=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | exile in a quote | gerund | the King's son | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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