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title: Despairing of being able to talk with the girl he loved, he resolved… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Despairing of being able to talk with the girl he loved, he resolved to write to her. Who acts: San. 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 5

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Despairing of being able to talk with the girl he loved, he resolved to write to her.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** despair, be, talk, love, resolve, write · **To what, where:** girl

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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:pg78208:7:5
# text = Despairing of being able to talk with the girl he loved, he resolved to write to her.
1	Despairing	despair	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despair** | gerund | San *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | San *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | San *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the girl | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with girl=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **love** | past | San | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
| 5 | **resolve** | past | San |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **write** | to-infinitive | San *not said here* |  | girl |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |

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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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