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title: “However that may be,” said the King, “I command that this evening’s… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “However that may be,” said the King, “I command that this evening’s fete shall not continue an instant longer.” Who acts: King, fete, evening. 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 71

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“However that may be,” said the King, “I command that this evening’s fete shall not continue an instant longer.”

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**Who acts:** King, fete, evening · **What happens:** be, say, command, not continue, fete · **To what, where:** instant · **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 (King, fete, evening), 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:pg78208:3:71
# text = “However that may be,” said the King, “I command that this evening’s fete shall not continue an instant longer.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	command	command	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	fete	fete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **command** *in a quote* | present | the King *= king* |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **continue** *in a quote* | shall | this evening's fete | a instant |  |  |  | long *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent instant=Theme |
| 5 | **fete** *in a quote* |  | this evening |  |  |  |  |  | nom fete «event 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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