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title: Orders were issued for the preparation of a great banquet and for th… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Orders were issued for the preparation of a great banquet and for the dispatch of couriers to all corners of the Kingdom to announce to the people the coming of their King. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 55

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Orders were issued for the preparation of a great banquet and for the dispatch of couriers to all corners of the Kingdom to announce to the people the coming of their King.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** issue, announce, come, prepare, dispatch · **To what, where:** Orders, people, great banquet, couriers

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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 (people), 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:pg78208:10:55
# text = Orders were issued for the preparation of a great banquet and for the dispatch of couriers to all corners of the Kingdom to announce to the people the coming of their King.
1	Orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dispatch	dispatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	couriers	courier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	announce	announce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past · passive |  | Orders |  |  |  | for the preparation of a great banquet and the dispatch of couriers; to all corners of the Kingdom | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for preparation=Recipient |
| 2 | **announce** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  | the people |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Orders's King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of king=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **prepare** |  |  | a great banquet and the dispatch of couriers |  |  |  |  | nom preparation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **dispatch** |  |  | couriers |  |  |  |  | nom dispatch «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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