Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 9
This decision exasperated Ja-Jo-Mi; he protested furiously against it, saying that the Prince was too young to attend to affairs of state and he painted a very black picture of the conditions of the country if the government were placed in his hands.
Who acts: decision, Prince · What happens: exasperate, protest, say, be, attend, paint · To what, where: Ja, black picture, government, hands, country · 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 (decision, Prince), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 decision | det |
| 2 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 protested | nsubj |
| 3 | exasperated | exasperate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 decision | acl |
| 4 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 exasperated | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jo | punct |
| 6 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ja | flat |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mi | punct |
| 8 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ja | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 protested | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 protested | nsubj |
| 11 | protested | protest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 11 protested | advmod |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 protested | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 protested | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 young | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 young | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 young | cop |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 young | advmod |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 attend | mark |
| 24 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 young | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 affairs | case |
| 26 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 attend | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 state | case |
| 28 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 affairs | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 painted | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 painted | nsubj |
| 31 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 protested | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 picture | det |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 black | advmod |
| 34 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 picture | amod |
| 35 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 painted | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 conditions | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 conditions | det |
| 38 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 picture | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 country | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 country | det |
| 41 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 conditions | nmod |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 placed | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 government | det |
| 44 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 placed | nsubj |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 placed | aux:pass |
| 46 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 painted | advcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 hands | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 hands | nmod:poss |
| 49 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 placed | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 protested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exasperate | participle | this decision not said here | Ja and Mi | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ja=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | protest speech: disagree | past | this decision | against choice; furiously property | vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | this decision not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the Prince | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | attend | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | to affairs of state | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to affair=Theme | ||||
| 6 | paint | past | decision | a black picture of the conditions of the country | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Destination | ||||
| 7 | place a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the government | government's hands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in hand=Destination | ||||
| 8 | condition | the country | nom condition «state 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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