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title: He entered a merchant’s shop near by, threw his robe over a random o… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He entered a merchant’s shop near by, threw his robe over a random object and dashed out of the doorway. Who acts: man. 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 109

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He entered a merchant’s shop near by, threw his robe over a random object and dashed out of the doorway.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** enter, throw, dash · **To what, where:** shop, robe, random object, doorway

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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 (man), 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:pg78208:11:111
# text = He entered a merchant’s shop near by, threw his robe over a random object and dashed out of the doorway.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | man | a merchant's shop |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Destination |
| 2 | **throw** | past |  | man's robe |  | a random object |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent robe=Theme over object=Destination |
| 3 | **dash** | past |  |  |  | the doorway |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out doorway=Trajectory |

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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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