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title: Having no desire to survive her husband, she plunged into the sea, c… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Having no desire to survive her husband, she plunged into the sea, crying, “In spite of you, I shall die with my husband.” Who acts: murder, Su. 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 86

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Having no desire to survive her husband, she plunged into the sea, crying, “In spite of you, I shall die with my husband.”

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**Who acts:** murder, Su · **What happens:** have, survive, plunge, cry, die, spite · **To what, where:** desire, husband, sea, you · **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 (murder, Su), 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:pg78208:5:88
# text = Having no desire to survive her husband, she plunged into the sea, crying, “In spite of you, I shall die with my husband.”
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	In	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | murder *not said here* | no desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 2 | **survive** | to-infinitive | murder *not said here* | murder's husband |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme husband=Circumstance |
| 3 | **plunge** | past | murder |  |  | the sea |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | murder *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | shall | Su and Rung *= su* |  |  |  |  | with my husband; in spite of you | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in spite=Attribute |
| 6 | **spite** *in a quote* |  |  | you |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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