Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 187
This hunt was, as we well know, unsuccessful, and the General, concluding that the royal prisoner had perished in the flames, sent word to that effect posthaste to Ja-Jo-Mi.
Who acts: we, hunt, General · What happens: know, be, conclude, perish, send · To what, where: royal prisoner, 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: who acts (we, hunt, General), 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 hunt | det |
| 2 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 unsuccessful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 unsuccessful | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 unsuccessful | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 unsuccessful | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 10 | unsuccessful | unsuccessful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 concluding | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 concluding | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 General | det |
| 14 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 concluding | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 concluding | punct |
| 16 | concluding | conclude | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 unsuccessful | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 perished | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prisoner | det |
| 19 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prisoner | amod |
| 20 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 perished | aux |
| 22 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 concluding | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 flames | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flames | det |
| 25 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 perished | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 word | punct |
| 27 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 word | amod |
| 28 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 unsuccessful | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 posthaste | case |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 posthaste | det |
| 31 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 posthaste | compound |
| 32 | posthaste | posthaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 word | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Ja | case |
| 34 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 posthaste | nmod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 Jo | punct |
| 36 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Ja | conj |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Mi | punct |
| 38 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Ja | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 unsuccessful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | we | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this hunt | sent word to that effect posthaste to Ja and Jo and Mi conj; unsuccessful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conclude | gerund | the General | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perish | past · perfect · passive | the royal prisoner | the flames | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | participle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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