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title: San-Syeng had directed that an altar for sacrifices be placed before… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: San-Syeng had directed that an altar for sacrifices be placed before the pagoda and that Su-Rung be arrested and brought to him. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 11

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San-Syeng had directed that an altar for sacrifices be placed before the pagoda and that Su-Rung be arrested and brought to him.

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**What happens:** direct, place, arrest, bring · **To what, where:** San, altar, pagoda, Su Rung, Rung

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78208:12:11
# text = San-Syeng had directed that an altar for sacrifices be placed before the pagoda and that Su-Rung be arrested and brought to him.
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pagoda	pagoda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **direct** | past · perfect · passive |  | San |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | infinitive · passive |  | a altar for sacrifices |  | the pagoda |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before pagoda=Destination |
| 3 | **arrest** | infinitive · passive |  | Su Rung |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **bring** | participle |  |  | Rung |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |

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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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