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title: Before returning to the Capital, San-Houni’s son visited several mor… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Before returning to the Capital, San-Houni’s son visited several more of the provinces, looking after the King’s business. Who acts: son. 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 54

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Before returning to the Capital, San-Houni’s son visited several more of the provinces, looking after the King’s business.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** return, visit, look · **To what, where:** several

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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 (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:pg78208:12:54
# text = Before returning to the Capital, San-Houni’s son visited several more of the provinces, looking after the King’s business.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Houni	Houni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | San's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Capital *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to capital=Result |
| 2 | **visit** | past | San's son | several |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | San's son *not said here* |  |  |  | after the King's business |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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