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title: He reflected for a long time, conjuring up hypothesis after hypothes… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 21

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He reflected for a long time, conjuring up hypothesis after hypothesis.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** reflect, conjure up · **To what, where:** hypothesis

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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), 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:pg78208:7:21
# text = He reflected for a long time, conjuring up hypothesis after hypothesis.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	conjuring	conjure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	hypothesis	hypothesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hypothesis	hypothesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | past | San |  |  |  | time |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conjure up** | gerund | San *not said here* | hypothesis |  |  | after hypothesis |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hypothesis=Result |

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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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