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title: The King offered them a few words of condolence and said: “You shall… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The King offered them a few words of condolence and said: “You shall be my Prime Minister,” indicating Sun-Yen. 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 162

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The King offered them a few words of condolence and said: “You shall be my Prime Minister,” indicating Sun-Yen.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** offer, say, be, indicate, word · **To what, where:** few words, eyes, Prime Minister, Sun Yen, condolence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg78208:12:164
# text = The King offered them a few words of condolence and said: “You shall be my Prime Minister,” indicating Sun-Yen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	condolence	condolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	ccomp	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	19	compound	_	_
19	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
22	indicating	indicate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | the King | a few words of condolence | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal word=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | You *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | the King *not said here* | my Prime Minister |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **indicate** | gerund | the King *not said here* | Sun Yen |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yen=Topic |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | condolence |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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