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title: San-Syeng’s mother was beside herself and he sought to calm her, rep… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: San-Syeng’s mother was beside herself and he sought to calm her, representing that he had no authority to put any man to death without an order from the King. Who acts: mother, son. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 39

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San-Syeng’s mother was beside herself and he sought to calm her, representing that he had no authority to put any man to death without an order from the King.

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**Who acts:** mother, son · **What happens:** be, seek, calm, represent, have, put · **To what, where:** MOTHER, authority, man

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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 (mother, son), 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:pg78208:12:39
# text = San-Syeng’s mother was beside herself and he sought to calm her, representing that he had no authority to put any man to death without an order from the King.
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | San's mother |  |  |  |  | beside MOTHER | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | past | MOTHER |  |  |  |  | son *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **calm** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | MOTHER *not said here* | MOTHER |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 4 | **represent** | gerund | MOTHER *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | son | no authority |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient |
| 6 | **put** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* | no authority *not said here* | any man |  |  | to death; without a order from the King | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Goal |

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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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