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title: When he was alone with Ki-Si, San-Syeng asked: “Would you like to jo… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was alone with Ki-Si, San-Syeng asked: “Would you like to join us in our fight against Ja-Jo-Mi?” Who acts: sir, Ki Si, you, our. 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 22

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When he was alone with Ki-Si, San-Syeng asked: “Would you like to join us in our fight against Ja-Jo-Mi?”

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**Who acts:** sir, Ki Si, you, our · **What happens:** be, ask, like, join, fight · **To what, where:** us, fight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sir, Ki Si, you, our), 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:pg78208:10:22
# text = When he was alone with Ki-Si, San-Syeng asked: “Would you like to join us in our fight against Ja-Jo-Mi?”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | sir |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ki Si and San |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **join** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | us |  | our fight |  | against Ja Jo and Mi | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 5 | **fight** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom fight «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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