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title: The guard in charge of Ki-Si rushed to inform the General whom Ja-Jo… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The guard in charge of Ki-Si rushed to inform the General whom Ja-Jo-Mi had appointed to watch the island of Cho-To. Who acts: guard, Ja. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 178

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The guard in charge of Ki-Si rushed to inform the General whom Ja-Jo-Mi had appointed to watch the island of Cho-To.

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**Who acts:** guard, Ja · **What happens:** rush, inform, appoint, watch, charge · **To what, where:** General, island, Ki · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guard, Ja), 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:pg78208:9:180
# text = The guard in charge of Ki-Si rushed to inform the General whom Ja-Jo-Mi had appointed to watch the island of Cho-To.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
15	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Cho	Cho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | the guard in charge of Ki and Si |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the guard in charge of Ki and Si *not said here* | the General |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent general=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **appoint** | past · perfect | Ja and Mi |  |  |  |  | whom *obl* | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Ja and Mi *not said here* | the island of Cho and To |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
| 5 | **charge** |  |  | Ki and Si |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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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