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description: The young girl, having calmed somewhat her father’s fears, went to the merchant’s to learn the date of her departure. Who acts: young girl, father, girl. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 1

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The young girl, having calmed somewhat her father’s fears, went to the merchant’s to learn the date of her departure.

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**Who acts:** young girl, father, girl · **What happens:** have, calm, go, learn, fear, depart · **To what, where:** merchant, date

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. 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, father, 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:pg78208:5:1
# text = The young girl, having calmed somewhat her father’s fears, went to the merchant’s to learn the date of her departure.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	calmed	calm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	somewhat	somewhat	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the young girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **calm** | participle | the young girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | somewhat girl's father's fears | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | past | the young girl |  |  | the merchant |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | the young girl *not said here* | the date of girl's departure |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic |
| 5 | **fear** |  | girl's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **depart** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act 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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