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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 8

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If our Mandarin were to appeal to the soldiers who are here and if his example were followed by the other Mandarins, Ja-Jo-Mi and his satellites could easily be put down.”

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**Who acts:** Mandarin, soldiers, other Mandarins · **What happens:** appeal, be, follow, put down, exemplify · **To what, where:** example, satellites

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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 (Mandarin, soldiers, other Mandarins), 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:pg78208:10:8
# text = If our Mandarin were to appeal to the soldiers who are here and if his example were followed by the other Mandarins, Ja-Jo-Mi and his satellites could easily be put down.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	appeal	appeal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Mandarins	mandarin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	satellites	satellite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appeal** | past | our Mandarin |  |  |  |  | to the soldiers | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to soldier=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | the soldiers |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | the other Mandarins | Mandarin's example |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **put down** | could · passive |  | Mandarin's satellites |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 5 | **exemplify** |  | Mandarin |  |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=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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