Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 80
It was an island that was easily accessible but by the orders of Ja-Jo-Mi no one was permitted to land there without a permit from the Prime Minister.
Who acts: succour, island, orders · What happens: be, permit, land, order · To what, where: island, one, Ja
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 (succour, island, orders), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 island | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 island | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 accessible | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 accessible | cop |
| 7 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 8 accessible | advmod |
| 8 | accessible | accessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 island | acl:relcl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 permitted | cc |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 orders | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 orders | det |
| 12 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 permitted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ja | case |
| 14 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 orders | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ja | punct |
| 16 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ja | flat |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mi | punct |
| 18 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ja | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 permitted | aux:pass |
| 22 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 accessible | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 land | mark |
| 24 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 permitted | xcomp |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 land | advmod |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 permit | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 permit | det |
| 28 | permit | permit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 land | obl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 Minister | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Minister | det |
| 31 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 32 Minister | compound |
| 32 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 permit | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 island | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | succour | a island | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a island | accessible, easily property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | permit | past · passive | the orders of Ja and Mi | no one | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | land not said to happen | to-infinitive | the orders of Ja and Mi not said here | there | without a permit from the Prime Minister | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | order | Ja and Mi | nom order «communication transitive»: of=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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