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title: Long before the appointed time he was in the garden, worried and anx… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Long before the appointed time he was in the garden, worried and anxious as to whether he had not given an erroneous interpretation to the young girl’s gesture. Who acts: meaning, young girl. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 28

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Long before the appointed time he was in the garden, worried and anxious as to whether he had not given an erroneous interpretation to the young girl’s gesture.

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**Who acts:** meaning, young girl · **What happens:** appoint, be, not give, gesture · **To what, where:** garden, meaning

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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 (meaning, young 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:pg78208:7:28
# text = Long before the appointed time he was in the garden, worried and anxious as to whether he had not given an erroneous interpretation to the young girl’s gesture.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	erroneous	erroneous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	gesture	gesture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | meaning |  |  | the garden | time | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | meaning *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | meaning |  |  |  | a erroneous interpretation *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient interpretation=Theme |
| 5 | **gesture** |  | the young girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom gesture «act intransitive»: 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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