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title: The General, greatly agitated and worried, gave orders to double the… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The General, greatly agitated and worried, gave orders to double the guards about the garden wall. Who acts: General. 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 179

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The General, greatly agitated and worried, gave orders to double the guards about the garden wall.

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**Who acts:** General · **What happens:** agitate, give, double · **To what, where:** General, orders, guards

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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 (General), 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:pg78208:9:181
# text = The General, greatly agitated and worried, gave orders to double the guards about the garden wall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	agitated	agitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	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 | **agitate** | participle |  | the General *not said here* |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | past | the General | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **double** | to-infinitive | the General *not said here* | the guards |  |  |  | about the garden wall | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent guard=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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