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title: Now, this day, Cheng-Si, the fair, had scarcely left her home when s… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, this day, Cheng-Si, the fair, had scarcely left her home when she met one of these traders in search of a human victim. Who acts: Si. 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 154

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Now, this day, Cheng-Si, the fair, had scarcely left her home when she met one of these traders in search of a human victim.

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**Who acts:** Si · **What happens:** leave, meet, search · **To what, where:** home, one, human victim

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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 (Si), 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:pg78208:4:155
# text = Now, this day, Cheng-Si, the fair, had scarcely left her home when she met one of these traders in search of a human victim.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect |  | Si's home |  |  | now; day | scarcely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Si | one of this traders in search of a human victim |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | a human victim |  |  |  |  | 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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