Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 178
The guard in charge of Ki-Si rushed to inform the General whom Ja-Jo-Mi had appointed to watch the island of Cho-To.
Who acts: guard, Ja · What happens: rush, inform, appoint, watch, charge · To what, where: General, island, Ki · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (guard, Ja), 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 guard | det |
| 2 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 charge | case |
| 4 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guard | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Ki | case |
| 6 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 charge | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Si | punct |
| 8 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ki | conj |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 inform | mark |
| 11 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rushed | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 General | det |
| 13 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 inform | obj |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 appointed | obl |
| 15 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 appointed | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jo | punct |
| 17 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ja | flat |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mi | punct |
| 19 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ja | conj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 appointed | aux |
| 21 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 inform | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 watch | mark |
| 23 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 appointed | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 watch | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Cho | case |
| 27 | Cho | Cho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 island | nmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 To | punct |
| 29 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Cho | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the guard in charge of Ki and Si | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive | the guard in charge of Ki and Si not said here | the General | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent general=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | appoint | past · perfect | Ja and Mi | whom obl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | watch | to-infinitive | Ja and Mi not said here | the island of Cho and To | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 5 | charge | Ki and Si | nom charge «act 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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