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title: “Can it be--yes, I imagine--her persistency in asking for my sandals… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Can it be--yes, I imagine--her persistency in asking for my sandals--oh, blessed one! Who acts: sight, persistency. 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 159

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“Can it be--yes, I imagine--her persistency in asking for my sandals--oh, blessed one!

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**Who acts:** sight, persistency · **What happens:** be, ask

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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 (sight, persistency), 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:pg78208:5:161
# text = “Can it be--yes, I imagine--her persistency in asking for my sandals--oh, blessed one!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	imagine	imagine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	persistency	persistency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	blessed	blessed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | can | sight |  |  |  |  | woman's persistency *obl*; I *nsubj*; blessed one *parataxis*; imagine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund | woman's persistency *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for my sandals | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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