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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 91

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At the orders of San-Syeng, an elaborate and tasty feast had been prepared.

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**What happens:** prepare, order · **To what, where:** elaborate feast, orders, San

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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: 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:pg78208:12:93
# text = At the orders of San-Syeng, an elaborate and tasty feast had been prepared.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive |  | a elaborate feast |  | the orders of San |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **order** |  |  | San |  |  |  |  | nom order «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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