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title: “Moreover, the dying King appointed me to rule until his son should… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Moreover, the dying King appointed me to rule until his son should be capable of taking the throne.” Who acts: dying King, son. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 10

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“Moreover, the dying King appointed me to rule until his son should be capable of taking the throne.”

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**Who acts:** dying King, son · **What happens:** die, appoint, rule, be, take · **To what, where:** decision, throne

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dying King, son), 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:pg78208:8:10
# text = “Moreover, the dying King appointed me to rule until his son should be capable of taking the throne.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	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 | **die** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **appoint** *in a quote* | past | the dying King | this decision *= decision* |  |  |  | moreover *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the dying King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | should | King's son |  |  |  |  | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | King's son *not said here* | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme |

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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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