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title: In the days of our story, Korean merchants in search of business wer… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: In the days of our story, Korean merchants in search of business were accustomed to make one trip a year across the Yellow Sea, which lies between China and Korea. Who acts: Yellow Sea. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 148

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In the days of our story, Korean merchants in search of business were accustomed to make one trip a year across the Yellow Sea, which lies between China and Korea.

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**Who acts:** Yellow Sea · **What happens:** accustom, make, lie, search · **To what, where:** Korean merchants, one trip, Yellow Sea, China, business

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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 (Yellow Sea), 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:pg78208:4:149
# text = In the days of our story, Korean merchants in search of business were accustomed to make one trip a year across the Yellow Sea, which lies between China and Korea.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | Korean merchants in search of business |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | one trip |  | the Yellow Sea | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product |
| 3 | **lie** | present | the Yellow Sea |  |  | China and Korea |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between china=Location |
| 4 | **search** |  |  | business |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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