--- title: “I shall report you to the Mandarin,” he declared, turning to San-Ho… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: “I shall report you to the Mandarin,” he declared, turning to San-Houni’s son. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/) / 116 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 116 “I shall report you to the Mandarin,” he declared, turning to San-Houni’s son. **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** report, declare, turn · **To what, where:** you, Mandarin, son, San · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:11:118 # text = “I shall report you to the Mandarin,” he declared, turning to San-Houni’s son. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 report report VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Mandarin Mandarin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 San San PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Houni Houni PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 20 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** *in a quote* | shall | man | you | the Mandarin | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to mandarin=Recipient | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | man | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | man *not said here* | son | San | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent son=Theme to san=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/117/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/)