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title: “Father, I have found a way to get you the three hundred bags of ric… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Father, I have found a way to get you the three hundred bags of rice that you owe the disciple. Who acts: young girl, you. 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 177

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“Father, I have found a way to get you the three hundred bags of rice that you owe the disciple.

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**Who acts:** young girl, you · **What happens:** find, get, owe · **To what, where:** way, hundred bags, you, rice

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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 (young girl, you), 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:pg78208:4:178
# text = “Father, I have found a way to get you the three hundred bags of rice that you owe the disciple.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the young girl *= girl* | a way |  |  |  | Father *vocative* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the young girl *= girl* *not said here* | the hundred bags of rice | you |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary bag=Theme |
| 3 | **owe** *in a quote* | present | you | rice |  |  |  | the disciple *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent that=Goal disciple=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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