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title: He was exiled when you were, but he was murdered by Su-Rung, the thi… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He was exiled when you were, but he was murdered by Su-Rung, the thief, before reaching Ko-Kum-To. Who acts: you, Su. 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 158

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He was exiled when you were, but he was murdered by Su-Rung, the thief, before reaching Ko-Kum-To.

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**Who acts:** you, Su · **What happens:** exile, be, murder, reach · **To what, where:** father, Ko

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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 (you, Su), 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:pg78208:12:160
# text = He was exiled when you were, but he was murdered by Su-Rung, the thief, before reaching Ko-Kum-To.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	exiled	exile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
22	Ko	Ko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Kum	Kum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exile** | past · passive |  | father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **murder** | past · passive | Su and Rung and the thief | father |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | gerund | Su and Rung and the thief *not said here* | Ko and Kum and To |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ko=Theme |

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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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