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title: The Prime Minister, rejoicing over his triumph, had Sun-Yen taken in… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prime Minister, rejoicing over his triumph, had Sun-Yen taken into custody. Who acts: Prime Minister, Sun, Minister. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 107

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The Prime Minister, rejoicing over his triumph, had Sun-Yen taken into custody.

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**Who acts:** Prime Minister, Sun, Minister · **What happens:** rejoice, have, take, triumph · **To what, where:** triumph, Sun, custody

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prime Minister, Sun, Minister), 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:pg78208:3:107
# text = The Prime Minister, rejoicing over his triumph, had Sun-Yen taken into custody.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	custody	custody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | gerund | the Prime Minister *not said here* |  |  | Minister's triumph |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Prime Minister | Sun and Yen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | participle | Sun and Yen *not said here* |  |  | custody |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into custody=Destination |
| 4 | **triumph** |  | Minister |  |  |  |  |  | nom triumph «event 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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