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title: They renewed vigorously their denials, the Mandarin meanwhile listen… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: They renewed vigorously their denials, the Mandarin meanwhile listening attentively. Who acts: jewels, Mandarin. 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 62

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They renewed vigorously their denials, the Mandarin meanwhile listening attentively.

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**Who acts:** jewels, Mandarin · **What happens:** renew, listen, deny · **To what, where:** denials

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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 (jewels, Mandarin), 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:pg78208:11:62
# text = They renewed vigorously their denials, the Mandarin meanwhile listening attentively.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	renewed	renew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	denials	denial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **renew** | past | jewels *= jewel* | jewels's denials |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent denial=Patient |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | the Mandarin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | attentively, meanwhile *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deny** |  | jewels *= jewel* |  |  |  |  |  | nom denial «communication 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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