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title: A short distance from here I abandoned him to go with Ou-Pung, the n… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: A short distance from here I abandoned him to go with Ou-Pung, the nun. Who acts: short distance. 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 41

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A short distance from here I abandoned him to go with Ou-Pung, the nun.

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**Who acts:** short distance · **What happens:** abandon, go · **To what, where:** husband

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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 (short distance), 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:pg78208:11:41
# text = A short distance from here I abandoned him to go with Ou-Pung, the nun.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ou	Ou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Pung	Pung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nun	nun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abandon** | past | a short distance | husband |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | a short distance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Ou and Pung | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ou=Beneficiary |

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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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