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title: On leaving the Capital, San-Syeng had a three-fold mission in view:… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: On leaving the Capital, San-Syeng had a three-fold mission in view: to make certain of the faithful execution of the King’s commands, to find his parents, and to rejoin his wife. Who acts: San, King. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 83

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On leaving the Capital, San-Syeng had a three-fold mission in view: to make certain of the faithful execution of the King’s commands, to find his parents, and to rejoin his wife.

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**Who acts:** San, King · **What happens:** leave, have, make, find, rejoin, execute · **To what, where:** Capital, fold mission, view, parents, wife, commands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, King), 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:pg78208:11:85
# text = On leaving the Capital, San-Syeng had a three-fold mission in view: to make certain of the faithful execution of the King’s commands, to find his parents, and to rejoin his wife.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	rejoin	rejoin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | San *not said here* | the Capital |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | San | a fold mission |  | view |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | San's parents |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Topic |
| 5 | **rejoin** | to-infinitive |  | San's wife |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 6 | **execute** |  |  | the King's commands |  |  |  |  | nom execution «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **command** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «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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