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title: The banquet was nearing an end when Sun-Yen arrived--tired and trave… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The banquet was nearing an end when Sun-Yen arrived--tired and travel-stained. Who acts: banquet, Sun. 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 94

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The banquet was nearing an end when Sun-Yen arrived--tired and travel-stained.

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**Who acts:** banquet, Sun · **What happens:** near, arrive, stain · **To what, where:** end

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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 (banquet, Sun), 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:pg78208:12:96
# text = The banquet was nearing an end when Sun-Yen arrived--tired and travel-stained.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	nearing	near	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **near** | past · progressive | the banquet | a end |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | Sun and Yen |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stain** | participle | Sun and Yen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | travel *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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