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title: Hurry to their rescue; the slightest delay may be fatal.” — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Hurry to their rescue; the slightest delay may be fatal.” Who acts: you, slightest delay, Ko. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 104

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Hurry to their rescue; the slightest delay may be fatal.”

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**Who acts:** you, slightest delay, Ko · **What happens:** hurry, be, rescue · **To what, where:** rescue

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, slightest delay, Ko), 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:pg78208:11:106
# text = Hurry to their rescue; the slightest delay may be fatal.”
1	Hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Ko's rescue |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | may | the slightest delay |  |  |  |  | fatal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rescue** |  | Ko |  |  |  |  |  | nom rescue «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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