Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 190
He immediately summoned the General whom he had placed in command of the guards at Cho-To, and when the latter came Ja-Jo-Mi met him with these words:
Who acts: death, latter · What happens: summon, place, come, meet, command · To what, where: General, command, death, guards · 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 (death, latter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 General | det |
| 5 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obj |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 placed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 placed | aux |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 summoned | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 command | case |
| 11 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 guards | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 guards | det |
| 14 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 command | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Cho | case |
| 16 | Cho | Cho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 guards | nmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 To | punct |
| 18 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Cho | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 met | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 met | cc |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 latter | det |
| 23 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 met | advcl |
| 25 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ja | punct |
| 27 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ja | flat |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mi | punct |
| 29 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ja | conj |
| 30 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 met | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 words | case |
| 33 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 words | det |
| 34 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 met | obl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | death | the General | immediately property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Recipient | |||
| 2 | place | past · perfect · passive | command of the guards at Cho and To | whom nsubj:pass; death nsubj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in command=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the latter | Ja and Mi nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | death not said here | death | with this words | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with word=Instrument | |||
| 5 | command | the guards at Cho and To | nom command «communication 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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