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title: Teach him to govern kindly and finish his education.” — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Teach him to govern kindly and finish his education.” Who acts: you, child. 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 197

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Teach him to govern kindly and finish his education.”

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**Who acts:** you, child · **What happens:** teach, govern, finish, educate · **To what, where:** child, education

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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: who acts (you, child), 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:pg78208:7:199
# text = Teach him to govern kindly and finish his education.”
1	Teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	govern	govern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | child |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **govern** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **finish** | infinitive | you *not said here* | child's education |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality education=Eventuality |
| 4 | **educate** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom education «act 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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