Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 23
After my father’s death I was banished to this island by the Prime Minister, Ja-Jo-Mi.
Who acts: Prime Minister, father · What happens: banish, die · To what, where: I, island
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 (Prime Minister, father), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 father | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 banished | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 banished | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 banished | aux:pass |
| 8 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 banished | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Minister | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Minister | det |
| 14 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 15 Minister | compound |
| 15 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 banished | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ja | punct |
| 17 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Minister | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Jo | punct |
| 19 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ja | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Mi | punct |
| 21 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ja | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 banished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banish | past · passive | the Prime Minister | I | this island | after my father's death | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to island=Destination | ||
| 2 | die | my father | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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