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title: The Governors’ choice naturally fell upon the shoulders of the decea… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The Governors’ choice naturally fell upon the shoulders of the deceased King’s son. Who acts: Governors. 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 8

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The Governors’ choice naturally fell upon the shoulders of the deceased King’s son.

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**Who acts:** Governors · **What happens:** ', fall, decease · **To what, where:** choice, shoulders

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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 (Governors), 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:pg78208:8:8
# text = The Governors’ choice naturally fell upon the shoulders of the deceased King’s son.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Governors	Governor	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’	'	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **'** | present | the Governors | choice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the Governors *not said here* |  |  | the shoulders of the deceased King's son |  | naturally *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon shoulder=Location |
| 3 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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