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title: As soon as the servant saw this ghastly spectacle he returned to his… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the servant saw this ghastly spectacle he returned to his master and told him what had taken place. Who acts: servant. 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 22

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As soon as the servant saw this ghastly spectacle he returned to his master and told him what had taken place.

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**Who acts:** servant · **What happens:** see, return, tell, take · **To what, where:** ghastly spectacle, master, servant, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (servant), 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:pg78208:3:22
# text = As soon as the servant saw this ghastly spectacle he returned to his master and told him what had taken place.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
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	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past |  | this ghastly spectacle |  |  |  | as the servant; soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spectacle=Stimulus as servant=Attribute |
| 2 | **return** | past | servant | this ghastly spectacle *not said here* |  | servant's master |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme to master=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | servant |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | place |  |  |  | what *nsubj:pass* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |

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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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