Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 58
Instead of occupying the throne, our young ruler is in prison.”
Who acts: young ruler · What happens: occupy, be · To what, where: throne, prison
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 (young ruler), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 occupying | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | occupying | occupy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 throne | det |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occupying | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prison | punct |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ruler | amod |
| 9 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prison | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 prison | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 prison | case |
| 12 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occupying | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 prison | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 prison | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | gerund | the throne | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus throne=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | our young ruler | prison | 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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