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title: Ou-Pung, the sister, consented to take the young traveler in, but ma… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Ou-Pung, the sister, consented to take the young traveler in, but made it very plain that it was impossible for her to keep a man about the house for more than two or three days. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 156

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Ou-Pung, the sister, consented to take the young traveler in, but made it very plain that it was impossible for her to keep a man about the house for more than two or three days.

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**What happens:** consent, take, make, be, keep · **To what, where:** young traveler, traveler, man, sister

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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: 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:pg78208:10:158
# text = Ou-Pung, the sister, consented to take the young traveler in, but made it very plain that it was impossible for her to keep a man about the house for more than two or three days.
1	Ou	Ou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Pung	Pung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	csubj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	37	advmod	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	conj	_	_
40	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | the young traveler |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveler=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | traveler |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for Pung; impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | a man |  |  | day | about the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme about house=Location |

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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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