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title: Ja-Jo-Mi had taken advantage of this to give all the important and l… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Ja-Jo-Mi had taken advantage of this to give all the important and lucrative offices to his followers. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 180

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Ja-Jo-Mi had taken advantage of this to give all the important and lucrative offices to his followers.

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**What happens:** take, give · **To what, where:** Ja, important offices, followers

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78208:7:182
# text = Ja-Jo-Mi had taken advantage of this to give all the important and lucrative offices to his followers.
1	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lucrative	lucrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | Ja and Mi |  |  |  | of this; advantage *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | all important offices | Mi's followers |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent office=Theme to follower=Recipient |

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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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