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title: Before the guests separated, Sun-Yen asked for silence, and in a pow… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the guests separated, Sun-Yen asked for silence, and in a powerful voice pronounced the following words: Who acts: guests, Sun. 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 20

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Before the guests separated, Sun-Yen asked for silence, and in a powerful voice pronounced the following words:

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**Who acts:** guests, Sun · **What happens:** separate, ask, pronounce, follow · **To what, where:** following words, powerful voice

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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 (guests, Sun), 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:pg78208:13:20
# text = Before the guests separated, Sun-Yen asked for silence, and in a powerful voice pronounced the following words:
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | past | the guests |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Sun and Yen |  |  |  |  | for silence | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pronounce** | past | Sun and Yen *not said here* | the following words |  | a powerful voice |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in voice=Manner |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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