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title: Meantime, the town officials had rushed to the prison where they sur… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Meantime, the town officials had rushed to the prison where they surrounded San-Syeng and paid him their homage. Who acts: San. 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 143

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Meantime, the town officials had rushed to the prison where they surrounded San-Syeng and paid him their homage.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** rush, surround, pay · **To what, where:** Meantime, prison, officials, San

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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 (San), 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:pg78208:11:145
# text = Meantime, the town officials had rushed to the prison where they surrounded San-Syeng and paid him their homage.
1	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past · perfect · passive |  | Meantime |  | the prison |  | the town officials *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to prison=Trajectory |
| 2 | **surround** | participle · passive | San | officials *= official* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | past |  |  | San |  |  | officials's homage *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient homage=Asset |

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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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