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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 85

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Ja-Jo-Mi, astounded by the news, summoned his General, at whom he cast the most violent reproaches and profane oaths (some of these we dare not print as the transcriber of this legend is a pious man).

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**Who acts:** Ja, Mi, we · **What happens:** astound, summon, cast, dare, be · **To what, where:** Ja, General, violent reproaches, pious man

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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 (Ja, Mi, we), 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:pg78208:10:85
# text = Ja-Jo-Mi, astounded by the news, summoned his General, at whom he cast the most violent reproaches and profane oaths (some of these we dare not print as the transcriber of this legend is a pious man).
1	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	astounded	astound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	profane	profane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	oaths	oath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nmod	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	dare	dare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	print	print	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	transcriber	transcriber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **astound** | participle |  | Ja and Mi *not said here* |  |  |  | by the news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **summon** | past | Ja and Mi |  | Mi's General |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Recipient |
| 3 | **cast** | past | Mi | the violent reproaches and profane oaths  some of these |  |  |  | whom *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary reproach=Product |
| 4 | **dare** | present | we |  |  |  |  | print *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | a pious man |  |  |  | as the transcriber of this legend | tree rules |

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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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