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title: When the funeral ceremonies were over, the Governors of the province… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When the funeral ceremonies were over, the Governors of the provinces held a conference upon the question of choosing a new King. Who acts: funeral ceremonies, Governors, question. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 7

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When the funeral ceremonies were over, the Governors of the provinces held a conference upon the question of choosing a new King.

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**Who acts:** funeral ceremonies, Governors, question · **What happens:** be, hold, choose · **To what, where:** conference, question, new King

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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 (funeral ceremonies, Governors, question), 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:pg78208:8:7
# text = When the funeral ceremonies were over, the Governors of the provinces held a conference upon the question of choosing a new King.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Governors	Governor	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conference	conference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the funeral ceremonies |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the Governors of the provinces | a conference |  | the question |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent conference=Theme upon question=Location |
| 3 | **choose** | gerund | the question *not said here* | a new King |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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