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title: The General’s orderly was at once commissioned to employ workmen who… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The General’s orderly was at once commissioned to employ workmen who were to begin immediately to erect a suitable tribute to the old lady’s memory. Who acts: workmen. 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 160

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The General’s orderly was at once commissioned to employ workmen who were to begin immediately to erect a suitable tribute to the old lady’s memory.

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**Who acts:** workmen · **What happens:** commission, employ, begin, erect · **To what, where:** workmen, suitable tribute

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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 (workmen), 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:pg78208:11:162
# text = The General’s orderly was at once commissioned to employ workmen who were to begin immediately to erect a suitable tribute to the old lady’s memory.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	orderly	orderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
8	commissioned	commission	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	erect	erect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commission** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | 's the General | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **employ** | to-infinitive |  | workmen |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | workmen | workmen *not said here* |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **erect** | to-infinitive | workmen *not said here* | a suitable tribute |  |  |  | to the old lady's memory | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Product |

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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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