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title: She thanked her friend for her excellent advice and handed her sanda… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She thanked her friend for her excellent advice and handed her sandals to her without understanding in the least what motive she had in this request. Who acts: direction. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 145

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She thanked her friend for her excellent advice and handed her sandals to her without understanding in the least what motive she had in this request.

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**Who acts:** direction · **What happens:** thank, hand, understand, have · **To what, where:** friend, sandals, least motive, request

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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 (direction), 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:pg78208:5:147
# text = She thanked her friend for her excellent advice and handed her sandals to her without understanding in the least what motive she had in this request.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
20	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	21	det	_	_
21	motive	motive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | direction |  | direction's friend |  |  | for direction's excellent advice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent friend=Theme for advice=Attribute |
| 2 | **hand** | past | direction *not said here* | direction's sandals |  |  |  | direction *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | gerund | direction *not said here* |  |  | the least motive |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past | direction | the least motive *not said here* |  | this request |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motive=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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