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title: Happy at having concluded this bargain which was to result so seriou… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy at having concluded this bargain which was to result so seriously for her, the young girl impatiently awaited the merchant’s return. Who acts: bargain, young girl, merchant. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 164

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Happy at having concluded this bargain which was to result so seriously for her, the young girl impatiently awaited the merchant’s return.

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**Who acts:** bargain, young girl, merchant · **What happens:** conclude, be, await, return · **To what, where:** bargain, return

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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 (bargain, young girl, merchant), 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:pg78208:4:165
# text = Happy at having concluded this bargain which was to result so seriously for her, the young girl impatiently awaited the merchant’s return.
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	result	result	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | gerund · perfect |  | this bargain |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | this bargain | this bargain *not said here* |  |  |  | for girl; result, seriously *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **await** | past | the young girl | the merchant's return |  |  |  | impatiently *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** |  | the merchant |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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