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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 114

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He joined one of the inmates in a loud protest for some light--the inevitable result of which would be to bring the jailer, who indeed did come running to see what their outcries portended.

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**Who acts:** man, jailer, outcries, inmates · **What happens:** join, bring, come, run, see, portend · **To what, where:** one, loud protest, jailer

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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 (man, jailer, outcries, inmates), 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:pg78208:11:116
# text = He joined one of the inmates in a loud protest for some light--the inevitable result of which would be to bring the jailer, who indeed did come running to see what their outcries portended.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	inmates	inmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	jailer	jailer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	33	obj	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	outcries	outcry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	portended	portend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | man | one of the inmates |  | a loud protest |  | for some light  the inevitable result | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the jailer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jailer=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past · do-support | the jailer |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | the jailer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | the jailer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 6 | **portend** | participle | inmates's outcries |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **outcry** |  | inmates *= inmate* |  |  |  |  |  | nom outcry «communication 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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