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title: A few minutes later and the Palace, which formerly echoed to the sho… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: A few minutes later and the Palace, which formerly echoed to the shouts of merrymaking, was in complete silence. Who acts: Palace. 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 76

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A few minutes later and the Palace, which formerly echoed to the shouts of merrymaking, was in complete silence.

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**Who acts:** Palace · **What happens:** echo, shout, be · **To what, where:** complete silence

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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 (Palace), 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:pg78208:3:76
# text = A few minutes later and the Palace, which formerly echoed to the shouts of merrymaking, was in complete silence.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	merrymaking	merrymaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **echo** | past | the Palace  a few minutes |  |  |  |  | formerly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the Palace  a few minutes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of merrymaking | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Palace  a few minutes |  |  | complete silence |  |  | 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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