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title: “You were right,” rejoined the sister, “but what motive impelled you… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “You were right,” rejoined the sister, “but what motive impelled you to leave the town where you were living?” Who acts: You, motive. 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 27

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“You were right,” rejoined the sister, “but what motive impelled you to leave the town where you were living?”

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**Who acts:** You, motive · **What happens:** be, rejoin, impel, leave, live · **To what, where:** sister, you, town · **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 (You, motive), 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:pg78208:11:27
# text = “You were right,” rejoined the sister, “but what motive impelled you to leave the town where you were living?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	motive	motive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	impelled	impel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | You |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rejoin** | past |  | the sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **impel** *in a quote* | past | what motive | you |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | what motive *not said here* | the town |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 5 | **live** *in a quote* | past · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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