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title: A few minutes more and Yeng-Si was pulled into the boat alive and sa… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 88

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A few minutes more and Yeng-Si was pulled into the boat alive and safe.

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**What happens:** pull · **To what, where:** Yeng, boat

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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: 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:pg78208:5:90
# text = A few minutes more and Yeng-Si was pulled into the boat alive and safe.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past · passive |  | Yeng |  | the boat |  | alive *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result |

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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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