Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 188
Upon receipt of this news, the Prime Minister was elated.
What happens: elate, receipt · To what, where: Prime Minister, news
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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 receipt | case |
| 2 | receipt | receipt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 elated | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 news | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 receipt | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 receipt | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Minister | det |
| 8 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 9 Minister | compound |
| 9 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 elated | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 elated | aux:pass |
| 11 | elated | elate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 elated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elate | past · passive | the Prime Minister | upon receipt of this news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | receipt | this news | nom receipt «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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