Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 8
The Governors’ choice naturally fell upon the shoulders of the deceased King’s son.
Who acts: Governors · What happens: ', fall, decease · To what, where: choice, shoulders
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 (Governors), 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 Governors | det |
| 2 | Governors | Governor | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 ’ | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’ | obj |
| 5 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’ | advcl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 shoulders | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shoulders | det |
| 9 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 son | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 12 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 King | amod |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shoulders | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | present | the Governors | choice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the Governors not said here | the shoulders of the deceased King's son | naturally property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon shoulder=Location | |||
| 3 | decease | participle | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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