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title: He left the revelers without being noticed and, setting out at a rap… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He left the revelers without being noticed and, setting out at a rapid gait, soon reached the home of the old lady. Who acts: course. 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 100

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He left the revelers without being noticed and, setting out at a rapid gait, soon reached the home of the old lady.

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**Who acts:** course · **What happens:** leave, notice, set out, reach · **To what, where:** revelers, rapid gait, home

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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 (course), 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:pg78208:5:102
# text = He left the revelers without being noticed and, setting out at a rapid gait, soon reached the home of the old lady.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	revelers	reveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	gait	gait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | course | the revelers |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reveler=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | gerund · passive | course *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **set out** | gerund | course *not said here* |  |  | a rapid gait |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | past | course *not said here* | the home of the old lady |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=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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