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title: The King, a witness of this scene--to him incomprehensible--did not… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The King, a witness of this scene--to him incomprehensible--did not delay long in finding out the cause, and he cried: Who acts: King. 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 139

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The King, a witness of this scene--to him incomprehensible--did not delay long in finding out the cause, and he cried:

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** not delay, find out, cry · **To what, where:** cause

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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: who acts (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:pg78208:12:141
# text = The King, a witness of this scene--to him incomprehensible--did not delay long in finding out the cause, and he cried:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
12	incomprehensible	incomprehensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **delay** | past · do-support | the King to prediction |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find out** | gerund | the King to prediction *not said here* | the cause |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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