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title: San-Syeng stationed his troops in a cordon about the city with order… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: San-Syeng stationed his troops in a cordon about the city with orders to let no one--no matter who it might be--leave or enter the town. Who acts: San. 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 79

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San-Syeng stationed his troops in a cordon about the city with orders to let no one--no matter who it might be--leave or enter the town.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** station, let, leave, enter · **To what, where:** troops, cordon, one, town

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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 (San), 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:pg78208:10:79
# text = San-Syeng stationed his troops in a cordon about the city with orders to let no one--no matter who it might be--leave or enter the town.
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	stationed	station	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cordon	cordon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **station** | past | San | San's troops |  | a cordon about the city with orders |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent troops=Theme in cordon=Destination |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | San *not said here* | no one |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | San *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** | infinitive | San *not said here* | the town |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=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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