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title: Su-Rung was in the habit of accompanying his adopted son to school. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Su-Rung was in the habit of accompanying his adopted son to school. Who acts: Su, habit. 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 59

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Su-Rung was in the habit of accompanying his adopted son to school.

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**Who acts:** Su, habit · **What happens:** be, accompany, adopt · **To what, where:** habit, adopted son, school

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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 (Su, habit), 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:pg78208:6:61
# text = Su-Rung was in the habit of accompanying his adopted son to school.
1	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Su and Rung |  |  | the habit |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **accompany** | gerund | the habit *not said here* | Rung's adopted son |  | school |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to school=Destination |
| 3 | **adopt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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