--- title: At these words, the King cried in an excited voice, “What, you, the… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: At these words, the King cried in an excited voice, “What, you, the Prime Minister, and you do not know that several of my people have just died by the roadside and that their death was caused from lack of food? Who acts: King, you, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:3:65 # text = At these words, the King cried in an excited voice, “What, you, the Prime Minister, and you do not know that several of my people have just died by the roadside and that their death was caused from lack of food? 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 excited excited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Prime Prime PROPN NNP _ 20 compound _ _ 20 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 roadside roadside NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 lack lack NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the King | | | this words | | in a excited voice; What the Prime Minister *parataxis* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **die** *in a quote* | present · perfect | | | | | | by the roadside | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **cause** *in a quote* | past · passive | | people's death | | lack of food | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **die** *in a quote* | | people | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **lack** *in a quote* | | | food | | | | | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/66/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/)