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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 80

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In order to more easily solve this problem he determined to travel through the country, thinking that some day he would be able to discover those to whom he owed his birth.

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**Who acts:** San, day · **What happens:** solve, determine, travel, think, be, discover · **To what, where:** problem, order, country, those, birth · **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 (San, day), 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:pg78208:6:82
# text = In order to more easily solve this problem he determined to travel through the country, thinking that some day he would be able to discover those to whom he owed his birth.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	solve	solve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **solve** | to-infinitive |  | this problem |  | order |  | easily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic |
| 2 | **determine** | past | San | this problem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | San *not said here* |  |  | the country |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | San *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | would | some day |  |  |  |  | San *nsubj*; able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **discover** | to-infinitive | some day *not said here* | those |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 7 | **owe** | past | San | San's birth |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |

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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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