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title: Su-Yeng here interposed, “I think you should be content with taking… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Su-Yeng here interposed, “I think you should be content with taking their money, but at least spare their lives.” Who acts: 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 78

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Su-Yeng here interposed, “I think you should be content with taking their money, but at least spare their lives.”

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** interpose, think, be, take, spare · **To what, where:** Su, money, lives, least · **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 (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:pg78208:5:80
# text = Su-Yeng here interposed, “I think you should be content with taking their money, but at least spare their lives.”
1	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	interposed	interpose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	obl	_	_
22	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interpose** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | Su and Yeng |  | here |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | should | you |  |  |  |  | content *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | Su's money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 5 | **spare** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | Su's lives |  | least |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |

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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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