Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 6
The King’s death filled his soul with joy, for it rendered easier the project he had been dreaming about for so long.
Who acts: death, soul, project, King · What happens: fill, render, dream, die · To what, where: soul, project
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 (death, soul, project, King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 death | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 soul | nmod:poss |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rendered | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 rendered | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rendered | nsubj |
| 13 | rendered | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | conj |
| 14 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 rendered | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 project | det |
| 16 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 easier | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dreaming | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dreaming | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 dreaming | aux |
| 20 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 project | acl:relcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 dreaming | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 long | case |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 rendered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the King's death | death's soul | with joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent soul=Patient with joy=Instrument | |||
| 2 | render | past | soul | easy property | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dream | past · perfect · progressive | project | the project not said here | about property | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Topic | |||
| 4 | die | the King | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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