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title: Despite the many adventures through which he had passed, he had neve… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite the many adventures through which he had passed, he had never ceased thinking of Yeng-So-Yei. Who acts: San. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 112

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Despite the many adventures through which he had passed, he had never ceased thinking of Yeng-So-Yei.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** pass, not cease, think · **To what, where:** many adventures

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San), 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:pg78208:10:114
# text = Despite the many adventures through which he had passed, he had never ceased thinking of Yeng-So-Yei.
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
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=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	So	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Yei	Yei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect | San |  |  | the many adventures |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location |
| 2 | **not** **cease** | past · perfect | San |  |  |  |  | despite the many adventures | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | San *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Yeng and Yei | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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