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title: If Su-Rung catches up--and he will not wait long--I will tell him th… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: If Su-Rung catches up--and he will not wait long--I will tell him that I do not know in what direction you went. Who acts: Su Rung, friend, I, 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 142

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If Su-Rung catches up--and he will not wait long--I will tell him that I do not know in what direction you went.

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**Who acts:** Su Rung, friend, I, you · **What happens:** catch up, not wait, tell, not know, go · **To what, where:** friend, direction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Su Rung, friend, I, 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:pg78208:5:144
# text = If Su-Rung catches up--and he will not wait long--I will tell him that I do not know in what direction you went.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
26	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Su Rung |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **wait** | future | friend |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I |  | friend |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | what  direction *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | past | you | direction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=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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