Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 181
Other soldiers were instructed to do their utmost in fighting the spread of the flames.
What happens: instruct, do, fight, spread · To what, where: Other soldiers, utmost, spread, flames
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: 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soldiers | amod |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 instructed | aux:pass |
| 4 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 instructed | xcomp |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 utmost | nmod:poss |
| 8 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 fighting | mark |
| 10 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spread | det |
| 12 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fighting | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flames | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flames | det |
| 15 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spread | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 instructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | past · passive | Other soldiers | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | soldiers's utmost | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utmost=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | the spread of the flames | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spread=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | spread | the flames | nom spread «event 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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