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title: He immediately summoned the General whom he had placed in command of… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He immediately summoned the General whom he had placed in command of the guards at Cho-To, and when the latter came Ja-Jo-Mi met him with these words: Who acts: death, latter. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 190

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He immediately summoned the General whom he had placed in command of the guards at Cho-To, and when the latter came Ja-Jo-Mi met him with these words:

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**Who acts:** death, latter · **What happens:** summon, place, come, meet, command · **To what, where:** General, command, death, guards · **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 (death, latter), 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:pg78208:9:192
# text = He immediately summoned the General whom he had placed in command of the guards at Cho-To, and when the latter came Ja-Jo-Mi met him with these words:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Cho	Cho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
25	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | death |  | the General |  |  | immediately *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Recipient |
| 2 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | command of the guards at Cho and To |  | whom *nsubj:pass*; death *nsubj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in command=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | past | the latter |  |  |  |  | Ja and Mi *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | past | death *not said here* | death |  |  |  | with this words | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with word=Instrument |
| 5 | **command** |  |  | the guards at Cho and To |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication 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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