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title: So Sun-Yen, the benevolent, set out accompanied by his servant--a fa… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: So Sun-Yen, the benevolent, set out accompanied by his servant--a faithful and trusted fellow. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 16

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So Sun-Yen, the benevolent, set out accompanied by his servant--a faithful and trusted fellow.

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**What happens:** set out, accompany

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78208:3:16
# text = So Sun-Yen, the benevolent, set out accompanied by his servant--a faithful and trusted fellow.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	trusted	trusted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accompany** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Yen's servant  a faithful fellow | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by servant=Destination |

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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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