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description: When he had reached his seventeenth year, San-Syeng asked Su-Rung for permission to make a trip through Korea in order to finish his education. Who acts: San. 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 81

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When he had reached his seventeenth year, San-Syeng asked Su-Rung for permission to make a trip through Korea in order to finish his education.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** reach, ask, make, finish, educate · **To what, where:** Su, trip, Korea, education · **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), 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:pg78208:6:83
# text = When he had reached his seventeenth year, San-Syeng asked Su-Rung for permission to make a trip through Korea in order to finish his education.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
25	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	fixed	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | San |  |  |  | year |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | San |  | Su and Rung |  |  | for permission | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent su=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a trip |  | Korea |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product |
| 4 | **finish** | to-infinitive |  | San's education |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality education=Eventuality |
| 5 | **educate** |  | San |  |  |  |  |  | nom education «act 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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