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title: From this day on, San-Syeng was constantly preoccupied with thoughts… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: From this day on, San-Syeng was constantly preoccupied with thoughts as to who his parents might be. 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 79

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From this day on, San-Syeng was constantly preoccupied with thoughts as to who his parents might be.

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**What happens:** preoccupy, be · **To what, where:** San

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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: 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:pg78208:6:81
# text = From this day on, San-Syeng was constantly preoccupied with thoughts as to who his parents might be.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	preoccupied	preoccupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preoccupy** | past · passive |  | San |  |  | day | with thoughts; constantly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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