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title: “Who knows,” she said, “if the Mandarins will carry out the orders;… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Who knows,” she said, “if the Mandarins will carry out the orders; perhaps they will continue to persecute the people to their profit? Who acts: Queen, Mandarins, Orders. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 103

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“Who knows,” she said, “if the Mandarins will carry out the orders; perhaps they will continue to persecute the people to their profit?

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**Who acts:** Queen, Mandarins, Orders · **What happens:** know, say, carry out, continue, persecute, profit · **To what, where:** orders, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Mandarins, Orders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:10:103
# text = “Who knows,” she said, “if the Mandarins will carry out the orders; perhaps they will continue to persecute the people to their profit?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Mandarins	mandarin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	persecute	persecute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **carry out** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | the Mandarins | the orders |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality |
| 4 | **continue** *in a quote* | future | Orders *= order* |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **persecute** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Orders *= order* *not said here* | the people |  |  |  | to Orders's profit | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 6 | **profit** *in a quote* |  | Orders *= order* |  |  |  |  |  | nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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