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title: Su-Rung made no opposition, although he preferred that his adopted s… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Su-Rung made no opposition, although he preferred that his adopted son take a traveling companion. Who acts: Su, Rung, adopted son. 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 82

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Su-Rung made no opposition, although he preferred that his adopted son take a traveling companion.

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**Who acts:** Su, Rung, adopted son · **What happens:** make, prefer, adopt, take · **To what, where:** opposition, traveling companion

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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, Rung, adopted son), 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:pg78208:6:84
# text = Su-Rung made no opposition, although he preferred that his adopted son take a traveling companion.
1	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	traveling	traveling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Su and Rung | no opposition |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposition=Product |
| 2 | **prefer** | past | Rung |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **adopt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | Rung's adopted son | a traveling companion |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=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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