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title: “I thank you for this frankness,” rejoined the King, “but candidly I… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “I thank you for this frankness,” rejoined the King, “but candidly I can hardly credit what you have just told me. Who acts: Sire. 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 45

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“I thank you for this frankness,” rejoined the King, “but candidly I can hardly credit what you have just told me.

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**Who acts:** Sire · **What happens:** thank, rejoin, tell · **To what, where:** you, King, Sire · **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 (Sire), 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:pg78208:3:45
# text = “I thank you for this frankness,” rejoined the King, “but candidly I can hardly credit what you have just told me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	frankness	frankness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	candidly	candidly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
19	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | Sire |  | you |  |  | for this frankness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for frankness=Attribute |
| 2 | **rejoin** | past |  | the King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can · perfect · passive |  | Sire | Sire |  |  | credit *nsubj:pass*; what *obj*; you *nsubj:pass*; candidly, hardly *property* | tree rules |

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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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