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title: San-Syeng naturally determined to travel in search of his wife, but… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: San-Syeng naturally determined to travel in search of his wife, but his body was tired and weary and he resolved to indulge in the luxury of a short nap before leaving the town. Who acts: body, task. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 95

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San-Syeng naturally determined to travel in search of his wife, but his body was tired and weary and he resolved to indulge in the luxury of a short nap before leaving the town.

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**Who acts:** body, task · **What happens:** travel, be, resolve, indulge, leave, search · **To what, where:** search, luxury, town, wife

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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 (body, task), 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:pg78208:11:97
# text = San-Syeng naturally determined to travel in search of his wife, but his body was tired and weary and he resolved to indulge in the luxury of a short nap before leaving the town.
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	indulge	indulge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | search of task's wife |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | task's body |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | task's body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **resolve** | past | task |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **indulge** | to-infinitive | task *not said here* |  |  | the luxury of a short nap |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **leave** | gerund | task *not said here* | the town |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 8 | **search** |  |  | task's wife |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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