Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 189
The death of the rightful King swept aside the last obstruction in the path of his plans.
Who acts: death, rightful King · What happens: sweep, die, plan · To what, where: last obstruction, path
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 (death, rightful 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 | 2 death | det |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swept | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 5 | rightful | rightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 King | amod |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 death | nmod |
| 7 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 7 swept | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 obstruction | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 obstruction | amod |
| 11 | obstruction | obstruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swept | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 path | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 path | det |
| 14 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swept | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 plans | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 plans | nmod:poss |
| 17 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 path | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | the death of the rightful King | the last obstruction | the path of death's plans | aside property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent obstruction=Theme in path=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | die | the rightful King | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | plan | death | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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