Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 136
The young King, rather than fall alive into the hands of Ja-Jo-Mi, determined to kill himself.
Who acts: young King · What happens: fall, kill · To what, where: hands, King
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young King), 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 | 3 King | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fall | punct |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 7 fall | cc |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 rather | fixed |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fall | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hands | det |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fall | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ja | case |
| 13 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jo | punct |
| 15 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ja | conj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Mi | punct |
| 17 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ja | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 determined | punct |
| 19 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fall | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 determined | xcomp |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | infinitive | the young King | into the hands of Ja and Jo and Mi result; alive property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | the young King not said here | King | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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