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title: “I’ll accept the offer, but I have some partners and must consult wi… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’ll accept the offer, but I have some partners and must consult with them, so I will not be able to give you a positive answer for a few days.” Who acts: Cheng. 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 161

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“I’ll accept the offer, but I have some partners and must consult with them, so I will not be able to give you a positive answer for a few days.”

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**Who acts:** Cheng · **What happens:** accept, have, consult, not be, give · **To what, where:** offer, partners, positive answer, you

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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 (Cheng), 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:pg78208:4:162
# text = “I’ll accept the offer, but I have some partners and must consult with them, so I will not be able to give you a positive answer for a few days.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	positive	positive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** *in a quote* | future | Cheng | the offer |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Cheng | some partners |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient |
| 3 | **consult** *in a quote* | must | Cheng *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with partners *= partner* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | future | Cheng |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Cheng *not said here* | a positive answer | you |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient answer=Theme |

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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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