--- title: “It is rumored that the Prime Minister, who always did have a detest… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: “It is rumored that the Prime Minister, who always did have a detestable reputation, has just crowned his infamy by exiling the King’s son. Who acts: Prime Minister. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/8/57/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/8/) / 57 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 57 “It is rumored that the Prime Minister, who always did have a detestable reputation, has just crowned his infamy by exiling the King’s son. **Who acts:** Prime Minister · **What happens:** rumor, have, crown, exile · **To what, where:** wont, detestable reputation, Prime Minister, son 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 (Prime Minister), 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:pg78208:8:57 # text = “It is rumored that the Prime Minister, who always did have a detestable reputation, has just crowned his infamy by exiling the King’s son. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 rumored rumor VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Prime Prime PROPN NNP _ 8 compound _ _ 8 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 detestable detestable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 reputation reputation NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 crowned crown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 infamy infamy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 by by SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 exiling exile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rumor** *in a quote* | present · passive | | wont | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the Prime Minister | a detestable reputation | | | | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient | | 3 | **crown** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | the Prime Minister | | | | Minister's infamy *obj* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme infamy=Attribute | | 4 | **exile** *in a quote* | gerund | | the King's son | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/8/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/8/58/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/8/)