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title: This suggestion was very pleasing to Yeng-Si and they started on the… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: This suggestion was very pleasing to Yeng-Si and they started on their journey to the temple of Ro-Ja. Who acts: suggestion, Ou. 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 156

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This suggestion was very pleasing to Yeng-Si and they started on their journey to the temple of Ro-Ja.

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**Who acts:** suggestion, Ou · **What happens:** be, start, journey · **To what, where:** Yeng, journey

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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 (suggestion, Ou), 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:pg78208:11:158
# text = This suggestion was very pleasing to Yeng-Si and they started on their journey to the temple of Ro-Ja.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Ro	Ro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this suggestion |  | Yeng |  |  | pleasing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | past | Ou |  |  | Ou's journey |  | to the temple of Ro and Ja | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **journey** |  | Ou |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «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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