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title: “Good friend, we have been showing hospitality not to a young man, b… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Good friend, we have been showing hospitality not to a young man, but to the wife of my own lost son,” replied Yeng-Si. Who acts: Good friend, Yeng. 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 24

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“Good friend, we have been showing hospitality not to a young man, but to the wife of my own lost son,” replied Yeng-Si.

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**Who acts:** Good friend, Yeng · **What happens:** show, lose, reply · **To what, where:** hospitality · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Good friend, Yeng), 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:pg78208:11:24
# text = “Good friend, we have been showing hospitality not to a young man, but to the wife of my own lost son,” replied Yeng-Si.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
27	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Good friend | hospitality |  |  |  | to a young man; we *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent hospitality=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Yeng |  |  |  |  | to the wife of my own lost son | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wife=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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