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title: Summoning an escort of troops, he marched to the inn where the King… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Summoning an escort of troops, he marched to the inn where the King lodged. Who acts: innkeeper, 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 46

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Summoning an escort of troops, he marched to the inn where the King lodged.

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**Who acts:** innkeeper, King · **What happens:** summon, march, lodge · **To what, where:** escort

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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 (innkeeper, 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:pg78208:10:46
# text = Summoning an escort of troops, he marched to the inn where the King lodged.
1	Summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | gerund | innkeeper *not said here* | a escort of troops |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escort=Recipient |
| 2 | **march** | past | innkeeper |  |  |  |  | to the inn *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to inn=Result |
| 3 | **lodge** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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