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title: The old man accepted this responsible charge with a bow and a few we… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man accepted this responsible charge with a bow and a few well chosen words of gratitude. Who acts: old man. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 163

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The old man accepted this responsible charge with a bow and a few well chosen words of gratitude.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** accept, choose, word · **To what, where:** responsible charge, gratitude

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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:pg78208:12:165
# text = The old man accepted this responsible charge with a bow and a few well chosen words of gratitude.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | the old man | this responsible charge |  |  |  | with a bow and a few chosen words of gratitude | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | gratitude |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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