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title: The populace, rising in revolt against the nobility and tax collecto… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The populace, rising in revolt against the nobility and tax collectors, were burning and pillaging throughout the village and Yeng-So-Yei just had time enough to dash through a secret gate in the city wall and make her escape into the open country. Who acts: populace, Yei. A sentence of «Winning Bud
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 118

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The populace, rising in revolt against the nobility and tax collectors, were burning and pillaging throughout the village and Yeng-So-Yei just had time enough to dash through a secret gate in the city wall and make her escape into the open country.

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**Who acts:** populace, Yei · **What happens:** rise, burn, pillage, have, dash, make · **To what, where:** revolt, secret gate, Yei, open country

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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 (populace, Yei), 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:pg78208:10:120
# text = The populace, rising in revolt against the nobility and tax collectors, were burning and pillaging throughout the village and Yeng-So-Yei just had time enough to dash through a secret gate in the city wall and make her escape into the open country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	populace	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	revolt	revolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nobility	nobility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	collectors	collector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pillaging	pillage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	So	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Yei	Yei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	dash	dash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund | the populace *not said here* |  |  | revolt |  | against the nobility and tax collectors | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in revolt=Location |
| 2 | **burn** | past · progressive | the populace |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pillage** | gerund | the populace *not said here* |  |  |  | throughout the village and Yeng |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Yei |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dash** | to-infinitive | Yei *not said here* |  |  | a secret gate |  | in the city wall | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | Yei *not said here* | Yei |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **escape** | infinitive | Yei *not said here* |  |  | the open country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial\_Location |

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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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