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title: Finally, unable to be patient any longer, and after satisfying herse… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally, unable to be patient any longer, and after satisfying herself that no one was watching her, she decided to wake the strange traveler. Who acts: nun, one. 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 136

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Finally, unable to be patient any longer, and after satisfying herself that no one was watching her, she decided to wake the strange traveler.

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**Who acts:** nun, one · **What happens:** be, satisfy, watch, decide, wake · **To what, where:** nun, strange traveler

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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 (nun, one), 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:pg78208:10:138
# text = Finally, unable to be patient any longer, and after satisfying herself that no one was watching her, she decided to wake the strange traveler.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | finally, long, patient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **satisfy** | gerund | nun *not said here* | nun |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **watch** | past · progressive | no one | nun |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **decide** | past | nun |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nun *not said here* | the strange traveler |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent traveler=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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