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title: So Cheng-Si told her father of her adventures from the time of her e… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: So Cheng-Si told her father of her adventures from the time of her embarkation on the merchant’s vessel up to her arrival at the Capital with the King. Who acts: Cheng, daughter. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 146

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So Cheng-Si told her father of her adventures from the time of her embarkation on the merchant’s vessel up to her arrival at the Capital with the King.

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**Who acts:** Cheng, daughter · **What happens:** tell up, adventure, arrive · **To what, where:** father, vessel, Capital

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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 (Cheng, daughter), 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:pg78208:12:148
# text = So Cheng-Si told her father of her adventures from the time of her embarkation on the merchant’s vessel up to her arrival at the Capital with the King.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	embarkation	embarkation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell up** *speech: assert* | past | Cheng |  | daughter's father of daughter's adventures | the merchant's vessel | time | to daughter's arrival at the Capital with the King | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Topic to arrival=Recipient |
| 2 | **adventure** |  | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **arrive** |  | daughter |  |  | the Capital |  | with the King | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place with=obl |

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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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