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title: The King approved Sun-Yen’s suggestion and orders were issued that a… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The King approved Sun-Yen’s suggestion and orders were issued that an immense feast be prepared. Who acts: King, immense feast, Sun Yen. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 16

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The King approved Sun-Yen’s suggestion and orders were issued that an immense feast be prepared.

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**Who acts:** King, immense feast, Sun Yen · **What happens:** approve, issue, be, suggest · **To what, where:** suggestion

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, immense feast, Sun Yen), 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:pg78208:13:16
# text = The King approved Sun-Yen’s suggestion and orders were issued that an immense feast be prepared.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approved	approve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approve** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **issue** | past · passive |  | Sun Yen's suggestion and orders |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | a immense feast |  |  |  |  | prepared *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **suggest** |  | Sun Yen |  |  |  |  |  | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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