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title: When San-Syeng observed this he began to withdraw toward the door sa… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When San-Syeng observed this he began to withdraw toward the door saying: “Sire, forgive my imprudence--excuse my impatience--.” Who acts: San. 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 38

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When San-Syeng observed this he began to withdraw toward the door saying: “Sire, forgive my imprudence--excuse my impatience--.”

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** observe, begin, withdraw, say, forgive, excuse · **To what, where:** this, door, Sire, imprudence, impatience · **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 (San), 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:pg78208:10:38
# text = When San-Syeng observed this he began to withdraw toward the door saying: “Sire, forgive my imprudence--excuse my impatience--.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	appos	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	imprudence	imprudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	excuse	excuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past | San | this |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **begin** | past | San |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **withdraw** | to-infinitive | San *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward door=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | San *not said here* | Sire |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sire=Topic |
| 5 | **forgive** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my imprudence |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imprudence=Theme |
| 6 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my impatience |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impatience=Theme |

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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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