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title: “Has the affair been settled?” she asked him, without manifesting th… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Has the affair been settled?” she asked him, without manifesting the least emotion. Who acts: girl. 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 166

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“Has the affair been settled?” she asked him, without manifesting the least emotion.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** settle, ask, manifest · **To what, where:** affair, sight, least emotion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg78208:4:167
# text = “Has the affair been settled?” she asked him, without manifesting the least emotion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	manifesting	manifest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	emotion	emotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the affair |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | girl |  | sight |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **manifest** | gerund | girl *not said here* | the least emotion |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=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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