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title: “No, sire, first of all you must pardon the familiarity with which I… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “No, sire, first of all you must pardon the familiarity with which I treated you. Who acts: you, 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 40

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“No, sire, first of all you must pardon the familiarity with which I treated you.

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**Who acts:** you, San · **What happens:** pardon, treat · **To what, where:** familiarity, you, sire

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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 (you, 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:pg78208:10:40
# text = “No, sire, first of all you must pardon the familiarity with which I treated you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	familiarity	familiarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pardon** *in a quote* | must | you | the familiarity |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent familiarity=Theme |
| 2 | **treat** *in a quote* | past | San |  | you |  |  | with the familiarity | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with which=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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