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title: One bright and beautiful day, the King found himself under arrest an… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: One bright and beautiful day, the King found himself under arrest and transported to Cho-To. Who acts: King. 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 44

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One bright and beautiful day, the King found himself under arrest and transported to Cho-To.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** find, transport · **To what, where:** King, arrest, Cho

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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 (King), 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:pg78208:8:44
# text = One bright and beautiful day, the King found himself under arrest and transported to Cho-To.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	arrest	arrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	transported	transport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Cho	Cho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the King | King |  | arrest | day |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **transport** | participle | the King *not said here* |  | Cho and To |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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