Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 72
San-Syeng told his questioner that he had fully made up his mind to assist the young ruler.
Who acts: San · What happens: tell, make up, assist, mind · To what, where: questioner, mind, young ruler · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (San), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 questioner | nmod:poss |
| 6 | questioner | questioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 made | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mind | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 assist | mark |
| 16 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ruler | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ruler | amod |
| 19 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 assist | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | San | San's questioner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent questioner=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make up | past · perfect | San | San's mind | fully property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 3 | assist | to-infinitive | San not said here | the young ruler | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | mind | San | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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