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title: “By virtue of my office as Prime Minister, I have taken it upon myse… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “By virtue of my office as Prime Minister, I have taken it upon myself to put one question to all of you. Who acts: 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 21

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“By virtue of my office as Prime Minister, I have taken it upon myself to put one question to all of you.

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**Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** take, put · **To what, where:** office, one question

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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 (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:pg78208:13:21
# text = “By virtue of my office as Prime Minister, I have taken it upon myself to put one question to all of you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Sun and Yen *= sun* | office |  |  |  | by virtue of my office as Prime Minister; upon Sun and Yen *= sun* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sun and Yen *= sun* *not said here* | one question |  |  |  | to all of you | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal |

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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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