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title: You wished to make this woman your slave and she has escaped from yo… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: You wished to make this woman your slave and she has escaped from your clutches in spite of your efforts. Who acts: You, woman, your. 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 43

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You wished to make this woman your slave and she has escaped from your clutches in spite of your efforts.

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**Who acts:** You, woman, your · **What happens:** wish, make, escape, clutch, spite · **To what, where:** slave, woman, clutches, efforts

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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 (You, woman, your), 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:pg78208:6:45
# text = You wished to make this woman your slave and she has escaped from your clutches in spite of your efforts.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	clutches	clutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | your slave | this woman |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset woman=Beneficiary slave=Product |
| 3 | **escape** | present · perfect | woman |  |  | your clutches |  | in spite of your efforts | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from clutch=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **clutch** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **spite** |  |  | your efforts |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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