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description: The Mandarin, whose exactions had been the primary cause of the revolt, was arrested and sent to the Capital together with the ring-leaders in the disturbance. Who acts: exactions, primary cause. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 89

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The Mandarin, whose exactions had been the primary cause of the revolt, was arrested and sent to the Capital together with the ring-leaders in the disturbance.

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**Who acts:** exactions, primary cause · **What happens:** be, arrest, send, exact · **To what, where:** primary cause, Mandarin, Capital

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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 (exactions, primary cause), 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:pg78208:11:91
# text = The Mandarin, whose exactions had been the primary cause of the revolt, was arrested and sent to the Capital together with the ring-leaders in the disturbance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	exactions	exaction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	revolt	revolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | the primary cause's exactions | the primary cause |  |  |  | of the revolt | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrest** | past · passive |  | the Mandarin |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  |  | the Capital |  |  | with the ring leaders in the disturbance; together *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to capital=Destination |
| 4 | **exact** |  | the primary cause |  |  |  |  |  | nom exaction «act 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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