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title: This request puzzled Yeng-Si a great deal as she did not understand… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: This request puzzled Yeng-Si a great deal as she did not understand the purpose of the elder woman’s intentions. Who acts: request, elder, intentions, elder woman. 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 138

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This request puzzled Yeng-Si a great deal as she did not understand the purpose of the elder woman’s intentions.

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**Who acts:** request, elder, intentions, elder woman · **What happens:** puzzle, not understand, purpose, intend · **To what, where:** great deal, purpose

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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 (request, elder, intentions, elder woman), 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:pg78208:5:140
# text = This request puzzled Yeng-Si a great deal as she did not understand the purpose of the elder woman’s intentions.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puzzle** | participle | this request | a great deal |  |  |  | Yeng *xcomp* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus deal=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | elder | the purpose of the elder woman's intentions |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer purpose=Stimulus |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | the elder woman's intentions |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **intend** |  | the elder woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: 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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