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title: I went to the cemetery and from there to gather some alms. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: I went to the cemetery and from there to gather some alms. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 124

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I went to the cemetery and from there to gather some alms.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go, gather · **To what, where:** cemetery, alms

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg78208:4:125
# text = I went to the cemetery and from there to gather some alms.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | I |  |  | the cemetery |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cemetery=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some alms |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent alm=Theme from there=Source |

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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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