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title: Now it came to pass that having no notion of the road she should fol… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it came to pass that having no notion of the road she should follow, she completely lost her way. Who acts: attire, that, 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 124

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Now it came to pass that having no notion of the road she should follow, she completely lost her way.

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**Who acts:** attire, that, Yei · **What happens:** come, pass, have, follow, lose · **To what, where:** notion, way

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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 (attire, that, 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:pg78208:10:126
# text = Now it came to pass that having no notion of the road she should follow, she completely lost her way.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
7	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | attire |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | attire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | that | no notion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient |
| 4 | **follow** | should | Yei | no notion *not said here* |  |  |  | of the road | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent notion=Theme of road=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lose** | past | Yei | Yei's way |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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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