--- title: Now it came to pass that her father appeared before her in a dream a… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: Now it came to pass that her father appeared before her in a dream and said, “My daughter, there is stopping at the inn nearest our home a traveler whose merits I bring to your attention. Who acts: mind, father, daughter, nearest. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, father, daughter, nearest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:6:164 # text = Now it came to pass that her father appeared before her in a dream and said, “My daughter, there is stopping at the inn nearest our home a traveler whose merits I bring to your attention. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 nsubj _ _ 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 traveler traveler NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 merits merit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 parataxis _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | mind | | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | mind *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | past | girl's father | | | a dream | before girl | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mind *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **stop** *in a quote* | present · progressive | My daughter | | | the inn | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location | | 6 | **merit** *in a quote* | | nearest our home | | | | | a traveler *nsubj*; whose *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 7 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | mind | merits *not said here* | | your attention | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent merit=Theme to attention=Destination | | 8 | **attend** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/6/161/) - next →: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/6/163/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/6/)