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title: I was murdered by Su-Rung whom I hired to take me to Ko-Kum-To. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: I was murdered by Su-Rung whom I hired to take me to Ko-Kum-To. Who acts: Su, I. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 101

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I was murdered by Su-Rung whom I hired to take me to Ko-Kum-To.

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**Who acts:** Su, I · **What happens:** murder, hire, take · **To what, where:** I, me, Ko

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Su, I), 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:pg78208:11:103
# text = I was murdered by Su-Rung whom I hired to take me to Ko-Kum-To.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Ko	Ko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Kum	Kum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murder** | past · passive | Su and Rung | I |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **hire** | past | I |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me | Ko and Kum and To |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to ko=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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