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title: Their greetings naturally consumed some time--their hearts were glad… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Their greetings naturally consumed some time--their hearts were glad and they were not ashamed to display their emotion. Who acts: greetings, hearts, Yen. 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 137

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Their greetings naturally consumed some time--their hearts were glad and they were not ashamed to display their emotion.

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**Who acts:** greetings, hearts, Yen · **What happens:** consume, be, not be, display, greet, emote · **To what, where:** emotion

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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 (greetings, hearts, Yen), 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:pg78208:11:139
# text = Their greetings naturally consumed some time--their hearts were glad and they were not ashamed to display their emotion.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	display	display	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** | past | Yen's greetings |  |  |  | time | naturally *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | greetings's hearts |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | greetings *= greeting* |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **display** | to-infinitive | greetings *= greeting* *not said here* | greetings's emotion |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Theme |
| 5 | **greet** |  | Yen |  |  |  |  |  | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **emote** |  | greetings *= greeting* |  |  |  |  |  | nom emotion «feeling 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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