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title: These words seemed deeply to impress the King who, with a trace of e… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: These words seemed deeply to impress the King who, with a trace of emotion in his voice, inquired of Sun, “Tell me, what should be done? Who acts: words. 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 39

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These words seemed deeply to impress the King who, with a trace of emotion in his voice, inquired of Sun, “Tell me, what should be done?

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** seem, impress, inquire, tell, do · **To what, where:** King, me · **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 (words), 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:pg78208:3:39
# text = These words seemed deeply to impress the King who, with a trace of emotion in his voice, inquired of Sun, “Tell me, what should be done?
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	impress	impress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | this words |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **impress** | to-infinitive | this words *not said here* | the King |  |  |  | a trace of emotion in King's voice *conj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of Sun | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of sun=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |

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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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