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title: The next evening when San-Syeng returned to his post by the garden w… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The next evening when San-Syeng returned to his post by the garden wall he saw the girl raise both hands and point to the moon. Who acts: San, girl. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 17

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The next evening when San-Syeng returned to his post by the garden wall he saw the girl raise both hands and point to the moon.

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**Who acts:** San, girl · **What happens:** return, see, raise · **To what, where:** garden wall, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San, girl), 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:pg78208:7:17
# text = The next evening when San-Syeng returned to his post by the garden wall he saw the girl raise both hands and point to the moon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
21	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | San |  |  |  | evening | to San's post *result*; by the garden wall | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to post=Result |
| 2 | **see** | past | San | the garden wall *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **raise** | infinitive | the girl | both hands and point to the moon |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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