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title: Each day for hours at a time he would walk in the neighborhood of th… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Each day for hours at a time he would walk in the neighborhood of the garden where he had first seen the young girl who was constantly occupying his thoughts. Who acts: curiosity, young girl. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 134

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Each day for hours at a time he would walk in the neighborhood of the garden where he had first seen the young girl who was constantly occupying his thoughts.

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**Who acts:** curiosity, young girl · **What happens:** walk, see, occupy, think · **To what, where:** neighborhood, young girl, thoughts

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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 (curiosity, young girl), 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:pg78208:6:136
# text = Each day for hours at a time he would walk in the neighborhood of the garden where he had first seen the young girl who was constantly occupying his thoughts.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	occupying	occupy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | would | curiosity |  |  | the neighborhood of the garden | day; time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighborhood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | curiosity | the young girl |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
| 3 | **occupy** | past · progressive | the young girl | curiosity's thoughts |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thought=Experiencer |
| 4 | **think** |  | curiosity |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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