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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 118

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The turtle, arriving close to the shore, turned aside into a deep subterranean passage and kept on swimming for several hours until it reached a point where the channel was very narrow.

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**Who acts:** turtle, swimming, channel · **What happens:** arrive, turn, keep, reach, be · **To what, where:** deep subterranean passage, swimming, point, turtle

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turtle, swimming, channel), 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:pg78208:8:120
# text = The turtle, arriving close to the shore, turned aside into a deep subterranean passage and kept on swimming for several hours until it reached a point where the channel was very narrow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	subterranean	subterranean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	very	very	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | gerund | the turtle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | participle | the turtle *not said here* |  |  | a deep subterranean passage |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into passage=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** | participle | the turtle *not said here* |  |  | swimming | hour |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on swimming=Location |
| 4 | **reach** | past | swimming | a point |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the channel |  |  |  |  | narrow *property* | tree rules |

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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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