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title: She sought to accumulate a little money and some food which would be… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She sought to accumulate a little money and some food which would be enough for him to live on decently for some little time. Who acts: thought, food, merchant. 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 6

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She sought to accumulate a little money and some food which would be enough for him to live on decently for some little time.

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**Who acts:** thought, food, merchant · **What happens:** seek, accumulate, be, live · **To what, where:** little money

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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 (thought, food, merchant), 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:pg78208:5:6
# text = She sought to accumulate a little money and some food which would be enough for him to live on decently for some little time.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	accumulate	accumulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	decently	decently	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | thought |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **accumulate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | thought *not said here* | a little money |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would | some food |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | merchant |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on decently=Location |

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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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