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title: The latter hastened--as all good servants do--to obey his master’s o… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter hastened--as all good servants do--to obey his master’s orders. Who acts: good servants, master. 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 19

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The latter hastened--as all good servants do--to obey his master’s orders.

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**Who acts:** good servants, master · **What happens:** hasten, do, obey, order · **To what, where:** orders

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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 (good servants, master), 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:pg78208:3:19
# text = The latter hastened--as all good servants do--to obey his master’s orders.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | good servants |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **obey** | to-infinitive | good servants *not said here* | servant's master's orders |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 4 | **order** |  | servant's master |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication 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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