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title: At last, she decided to go to her room, following in spirit San-Syen… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, she decided to go to her room, following in spirit San-Syeng who was galloping briskly toward the Capital. Who acts: forest, spirit. 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 172

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At last, she decided to go to her room, following in spirit San-Syeng who was galloping briskly toward the Capital.

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**Who acts:** forest, spirit · **What happens:** decide, go, follow, gallop · **To what, where:** last, room, spirit

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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 (forest, spirit), 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:pg78208:7:172
# text = At last, she decided to go to her room, following in spirit San-Syeng who was galloping briskly toward the Capital.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	_
21	briskly	briskly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | forest |  |  | last |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | forest *not said here* |  |  | forest's room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | forest *not said here* |  |  | spirit |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spirit=Location |
| 4 | **gallop** | past · progressive | spirit |  |  |  |  | briskly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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