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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 127

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Tired, almost unto death, she threw herself down beside a clump of tall bamboo, intending to rest but a few moments, but in spite of her well-meaning resolutions, she was soon fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** Tired death, fog · **What happens:** throw down, intend, rest, mean, be, spite · **To what, where:** fog, clump, resolutions

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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 (Tired death, fog), 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:pg78208:10:129
# text = Tired, almost unto death, she threw herself down beside a clump of tall bamboo, intending to rest but a few moments, but in spite of her well-meaning resolutions, she was soon fast asleep.
1	Tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
34	resolutions	resolution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
39	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
40	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw down** | past | Tired death | fog |  | a clump of tall bamboo |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme beside clump=Destination |
| 2 | **intend** | gerund | Tired death *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tired death *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | gerund | Tired death *not said here* | resolutions |  |  |  | in spite of fog; well *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot resolution=Theme in spite=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | past | fog |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | fog |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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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