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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 37

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The latter feared that Su-Rung in his fury would do harm if he succeeded in coming upon the fugitives and Su-Yeng wished to be present to protect them should the worst come to the worst.

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**Who acts:** latter, Su Rung, Rung, Su, present · **What happens:** fear, do, succeed, come, wish, be · **To what, where:** harm, fugitives, Su, worst · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (latter, Su Rung, Rung, Su), 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:pg78208:6:39
# text = The latter feared that Su-Rung in his fury would do harm if he succeeded in coming upon the fugitives and Su-Yeng wished to be present to protect them should the worst come to the worst.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	nsubj	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | the latter |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | would | Su Rung in Rung's fury | harm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 3 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Rung |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | Rung *not said here* |  |  | the fugitives |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fugitive=Location |
| 5 | **wish** | past | Su and Yeng |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | Su |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **come** | should | present |  |  | the worst |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bad=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **infuriate** |  | Rung |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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