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title: Sire, as soon as I have carried them out I shall return to my office… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Sire, as soon as I have carried them out I shall return to my office and secure what testimony I can about this matter. Who acts: I. 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 73

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Sire, as soon as I have carried them out I shall return to my office and secure what testimony I can about this matter.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** carry out, return, secure, testimony · **To what, where:** orders, Sire

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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 (I), 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:pg78208:3:73
# text = Sire, as soon as I have carried them out I shall return to my office and secure what testimony I can about this matter.
1	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | present · perfect | I | orders *= order* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 2 | **return** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | to my office *result*; soon *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to office=Result |
| 3 | **secure** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about this matter | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **testimony** |  |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | 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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