--- title: Quite pleased at his unusual discovery Su-Rung took the little being… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: Quite pleased at his unusual discovery Su-Rung took the little being and carried it home with him where he confided it to a nurse, instructing her to take the greatest care of the little boy. Who acts: pleased, Rung, little boy. 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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 (pleased, Rung, little boy), 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:pg78208:6:51 # text = Quite pleased at his unusual discovery Su-Rung took the little being and carried it home with him where he confided it to a nurse, instructing her to take the greatest care of the little boy. 1 Quite quite ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 unusual unusual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 discovery discovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 Su Su PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Rung Rung PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 home home ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 confided confide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 instructing instruct VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | pleased at Rung's unusual discovery | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **carry** | past | pleased at Rung's unusual discovery *not said here* | discovery | | | | with Rung; home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **confide** *speech: other* | past | Rung | discovery | a nurse | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to nurse=Recipient | | 4 | **instruct** *speech: other* | gerund | Rung *not said here* | Yeng | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | Rung *not said here* | the greatest care of the little boy | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 6 | **discover** | | Rung | | | | | | nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **care** | | the little boy | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/6/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/6/50/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/6/)