Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 7
When the funeral ceremonies were over, the Governors of the provinces held a conference upon the question of choosing a new King.
Who acts: funeral ceremonies, Governors, question · What happens: be, hold, choose · To what, where: conference, question, new King
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 (funeral ceremonies, Governors, question), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 over | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ceremonies | det |
| 3 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ceremonies | compound |
| 4 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 over | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 over | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 held | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 over | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Governors | det |
| 9 | Governors | Governor | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 held | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 provinces | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 provinces | det |
| 12 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Governors | nmod |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 conference | det |
| 15 | conference | conference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 question | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 question | det |
| 18 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conference | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 choosing | mark |
| 20 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 question | acl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 King | amod |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 choosing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the funeral ceremonies | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the Governors of the provinces | a conference | the question | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent conference=Theme upon question=Location | |||
| 3 | choose | gerund | the question not said here | a new King | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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