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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 122

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Finally, he decided to find a lodging, hoping also to obtain some information concerning the beautiful girl whose charms still held him.

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**Who acts:** beautiful unknown, charms · **What happens:** decide, find, hope, obtain, concern, hold · **To what, where:** lodging, information, beautiful unknown

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful unknown, charms), 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:pg78208:6:124
# text = Finally, he decided to find a lodging, hoping also to obtain some information concerning the beautiful girl whose charms still held him.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | beautiful unknown *= unknown* |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | beautiful unknown *= unknown* *not said here* | a lodging |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Topic |
| 3 | **hope** | gerund | beautiful unknown *= unknown* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **obtain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | beautiful unknown *= unknown* *not said here* | some information |  |  |  | concern the beautiful girl | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset information=Theme |
| 5 | **concern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **hold** | past | charms | beautiful unknown *= unknown* |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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