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title: He took his flute, and, stationing himself near the garden, improvis… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He took his flute, and, stationing himself near the garden, improvised the following verses: Who acts: stroller. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 138

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He took his flute, and, stationing himself near the garden, improvised the following verses:

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**Who acts:** stroller · **What happens:** take, station, improvise, follow · **To what, where:** flute, stroller, garden, following verses

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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 (stroller), 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:pg78208:6:140
# text = He took his flute, and, stationing himself near the garden, improvised the following verses:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stationing	station	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	improvised	improvise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | stroller | stroller's flute |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme |
| 2 | **station** | gerund | stroller *not said here* | stroller |  | the garden |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme near garden=Destination |
| 3 | **improvise** | past | stroller *not said here* | the following verses |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Result |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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