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title: “I was about to do exactly as you suggest, sir,” said the agent, who… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “I was about to do exactly as you suggest, sir,” said the agent, who, with a quickened step, went toward the group which by this time had increased materially. Who acts: agent, you. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 26

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“I was about to do exactly as you suggest, sir,” said the agent, who, with a quickened step, went toward the group which by this time had increased materially.

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**Who acts:** agent, you · **What happens:** be, do, suggest, say, quicken, go · **To what, where:** group · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (agent, you), 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:pg78208:3:26
# text = “I was about to do exactly as you suggest, sir,” said the agent, who, with a quickened step, went toward the group which by this time had increased materially.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	suggest	suggest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	agent	agent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	quickened	quicken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
36	materially	materially	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the agent and a quickened step  the agent and a quickened step  the agent *= agent* |  |  |  |  | sir *conj*; about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the agent and a quickened step  the agent and a quickened step  the agent *= agent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the agent and a quickened step  the agent and a quickened step  the agent |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **quicken** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | past | the agent and a quickened step  the agent and a quickened step  the agent *not said here* |  |  | the group |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward group=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **increase** | past · perfect |  | the group |  |  | time | materially *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer which=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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