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title: In order to carry out her project more easily, she assumed masculine… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: In order to carry out her project more easily, she assumed masculine attire and, thus disguised, set out on her journey. Who acts: Yei. 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 123

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In order to carry out her project more easily, she assumed masculine attire and, thus disguised, set out on her journey.

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**Who acts:** Yei · **What happens:** carry out, assume, disguise, set out, project, journey · **To what, where:** project, masculine attire, journey

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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 (Yei), 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:pg78208:10:125
# text = In order to carry out her project more easily, she assumed masculine attire and, thus disguised, set out on her journey.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	masculine	masculine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | to-infinitive |  | Yei's project |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Eventuality |
| 2 | **assume** | past | Yei | masculine attire |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attire=Theme |
| 3 | **disguise** | participle | Yei *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set out** | participle | Yei *not said here* |  |  | Yei's journey |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **project** |  | Yei |  |  |  |  |  | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **journey** |  | Yei |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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