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title: And San-Syeng found it useless to endeavor to dissuade Su-Yeng from… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: And San-Syeng found it useless to endeavor to dissuade Su-Yeng from his fatal purpose. Who acts: San, life, brother. 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 53

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And San-Syeng found it useless to endeavor to dissuade Su-Yeng from his fatal purpose.

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**Who acts:** San, life, brother · **What happens:** find, endeavor, dissuade, purpose · **To what, where:** life, Su, fatal purpose

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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 (San, life, brother), 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:pg78208:12:53
# text = And San-Syeng found it useless to endeavor to dissuade Su-Yeng from his fatal purpose.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	endeavor	endeavor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	dissuade	dissuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | San | life |  |  |  | useless *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **endeavor** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dissuade** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* |  | Su and Yeng | brother's fatal purpose |  |  | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer su=Beneficiary from purpose=Eventuality |
| 4 | **purpose** |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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