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title: “Sire,” replied Sun-Yen, “May I have permission to reflect upon this… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sire,” replied Sun-Yen, “May I have permission to reflect upon this matter for a few days before giving you my opinion?” Who acts: Sire, my. 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 173

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“Sire,” replied Sun-Yen, “May I have permission to reflect upon this matter for a few days before giving you my opinion?”

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**Who acts:** Sire, my · **What happens:** reply, have, reflect, give, opine · **To what, where:** Sun, permission, opinion, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sire, my), 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:pg78208:12:175
# text = “Sire,” replied Sun-Yen, “May I have permission to reflect upon this matter for a few days before giving you my opinion?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	reflect	reflect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | Sire | Sun and Yen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | may | Sire | permission |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient |
| 3 | **reflect** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sire *not said here* | permission *not said here* |  |  | day | upon this matter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | Sire *not said here* | my opinion | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient opinion=Theme |
| 5 | **opine** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition 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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