Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 202
It seems that the poor Prince lost his life in a big fire and the General, who had charge of this mission, is bringing back his men.
Who acts: It, poor Prince, big fire · What happens: seem, lose, have, bring back, charge · To what, where: life, big fire, charge, men, mission
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 (It, poor Prince, big fire), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Prince | amod |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seems | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fire | amod |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 General | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 General | det |
| 16 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fire | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fire | conj |
| 20 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mission | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 mission | det |
| 23 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charge | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bringing | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bringing | aux |
| 26 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seems | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 bringing | advmod |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 men | nmod:poss |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bringing | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | the poor Prince | Prince's life | a big fire and the General | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | have | past | a big fire and the General | charge of this mission | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring back | present · progressive | Prince's men | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||||
| 5 | charge | this mission | nom charge «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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