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title: “Well, I would consider it a great favor if you would let me have yo… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, I would consider it a great favor if you would let me have your sandals in exchange for mine.” Who acts: elder, you. 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 137

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“Well, I would consider it a great favor if you would let me have your sandals in exchange for mine.”

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**Who acts:** elder, you · **What happens:** consider, let, have · **To what, where:** haste, elder, sandals, exchange

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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 (elder, 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:pg78208:5:139
# text = “Well, I would consider it a great favor if you would let me have your sandals in exchange for mine.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** *in a quote* | would | the elder of the two *= elder* | haste |  |  |  | a great favor *obj* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme favor=Attribute |
| 2 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | you | the elder of the two *= elder* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | the elder of the two *= elder* *not said here* | your sandals |  | exchange for mine |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Patient |

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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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