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title: Nevertheless, he did not insist but gave his consent for San-Syeng t… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, he did not insist but gave his consent for San-Syeng to travel alone on a journey that would consume perhaps two years. Who acts: son, journey. 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 83

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Nevertheless, he did not insist but gave his consent for San-Syeng to travel alone on a journey that would consume perhaps two years.

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**Who acts:** son, journey · **What happens:** not insist, give, travel, consume, consent · **To what, where:** consent, journey

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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 (son, journey), 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:pg78208:6:85
# text = Nevertheless, he did not insist but gave his consent for San-Syeng to travel alone on a journey that would consume perhaps two years.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	insist	insist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **insist** *speech: other* | past · do-support | son |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | son *not said here* | son's consent |  |  |  | for San | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent consent=Theme for san=Asset |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  | a journey |  | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on journey=Trajectory |
| 4 | **consume** | would | a journey |  |  |  | year |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **consent** |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication 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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