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title: She wondered if it were not the young man whom she had seen a few da… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She wondered if it were not the young man whom she had seen a few days before walking near the garden. Who acts: girl, servant. 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 150

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She wondered if it were not the young man whom she had seen a few days before walking near the garden.

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**Who acts:** girl, servant · **What happens:** wonder, not be, see, walk · **To what, where:** young man, garden

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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 (girl, servant), 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:pg78208:6:152
# text = She wondered if it were not the young man whom she had seen a few days before walking near the garden.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | servant | the young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | girl | the young man |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near garden=Trajectory |

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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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