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title: When his mission was concluded, he sought audience with the King for… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When his mission was concluded, he sought audience with the King for the purpose of reporting what he had seen, heard, and done. Who acts: King, purpose. 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 55

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When his mission was concluded, he sought audience with the King for the purpose of reporting what he had seen, heard, and done.

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**Who acts:** King, purpose · **What happens:** conclude, seek, report, see, hear · **To what, where:** mission, audience

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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, purpose), 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:pg78208:12:55
# text = When his mission was concluded, he sought audience with the King for the purpose of reporting what he had seen, heard, and done.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	reporting	report	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | past · passive |  | King's mission |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | past | King | audience |  |  |  | with the King; for the purpose | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent audience=Location for purpose=Theme |
| 3 | **report** | gerund | the purpose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | King |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hear** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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