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title: Cheng-Si renewed her requests to the magistrate, who, shortly after,… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheng-Si renewed her requests to the magistrate, who, shortly after, visited the unfortunate father and tried to console him a bit, without succeeding to the slightest extent. Who acts: Cheng. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 45

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Cheng-Si renewed her requests to the magistrate, who, shortly after, visited the unfortunate father and tried to console him a bit, without succeeding to the slightest extent.

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**Who acts:** Cheng · **What happens:** renew, visit, try, succeed, request · **To what, where:** requests, unfortunate father, console

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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 (Cheng), 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:pg78208:5:45
# text = Cheng-Si renewed her requests to the magistrate, who, shortly after, visited the unfortunate father and tried to console him a bit, without succeeding to the slightest extent.
1	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	renewed	renew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	requests	request	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	magistrate	magistrate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	succeeding	succeed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **renew** | past | Cheng | Cheng's requests |  |  |  | to the magistrate | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent request=Patient |
| 2 | **visit** | past |  | the unfortunate father |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **try** | past |  | console  father |  |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality |
| 4 | **succeed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the slightest extent | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **request** |  | Cheng |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication 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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