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title: One beautiful morning she saw him coming toward the house and immedi… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: One beautiful morning she saw him coming toward the house and immediately went to meet him. Who acts: girl, sight. 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 165

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One beautiful morning she saw him coming toward the house and immediately went to meet him.

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**Who acts:** girl, sight · **What happens:** see, come, go, meet · **To what, where:** sight, house

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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 (girl, sight), 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:pg78208:4:166
# text = One beautiful morning she saw him coming toward the house and immediately went to meet him.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | girl | sight |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | sight *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | sight |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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