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title: Our Master, the King, wishes to undertake an expedition against Jin-… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Our Master, the King, wishes to undertake an expedition against Jin-Han to avenge his father’s defeat. Who acts: Master, father. 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 22

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Our Master, the King, wishes to undertake an expedition against Jin-Han to avenge his father’s defeat.

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**Who acts:** Master, father · **What happens:** wish, undertake, avenge, defeat · **To what, where:** expedition, defeat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Master, father), 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:pg78208:13:22
# text = Our Master, the King, wishes to undertake an expedition against Jin-Han to avenge his father’s defeat.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jin	Jin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | Our Master |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **undertake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a expedition |  |  |  | against Jin and Han | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Eventuality |
| 3 | **avenge** | to-infinitive |  | Master's father's defeat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **defeat** |  | Master's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom defeat «event transitive»: 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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