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title: A few moments after, he had word brought to them that if Yeng-So-Yei… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: A few moments after, he had word brought to them that if Yeng-So-Yei would consent to marry him, no mention would ever be made of the theft. Who acts: few moments, Yei, word. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 64

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A few moments after, he had word brought to them that if Yeng-So-Yei would consent to marry him, no mention would ever be made of the theft.

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**Who acts:** few moments, Yei, word · **What happens:** have, bring, consent, marry, make · **To what, where:** word, words, man, mention

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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 (few moments, Yei, word), 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:pg78208:11:64
# text = A few moments after, he had word brought to them that if Yeng-So-Yei would consent to marry him, no mention would ever be made of the theft.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	So	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Yei	Yei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a few moments | word |  |  |  | man *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **bring** | participle |  | word *not said here* | words *= word* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to they=Destination |
| 3 | **consent** | would | Yei |  |  |  |  | Yeng *vocative* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive | Yei *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | would · passive | word *not said here* | no mention |  |  | ever | of the theft | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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