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title: The King recognized the wisdom of this idea and ordered San-Syeng to… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The King recognized the wisdom of this idea and ordered San-Syeng to send out in all directions honest and devoted men on this errand. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 105

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The King recognized the wisdom of this idea and ordered San-Syeng to send out in all directions honest and devoted men on this errand.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** recognize, order, send out · **To what, where:** wisdom, San, honest men, directions

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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 (King), 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:pg78208:10:105
# text = The King recognized the wisdom of this idea and ordered San-Syeng to send out in all directions honest and devoted men on this errand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	errand	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | past | the King | the wisdom of this idea |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **order** | past | the King *not said here* |  | San |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent san=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | honest men |  | all directions |  | on this errand | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in direction=Destination |

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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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