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title: After a few minutes rest, Cheng-Si picked her way carefully through… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: After a few minutes rest, Cheng-Si picked her way carefully through the briars and brambles covering the trunk of the tree and began to stroll about the garden. Who acts: few minutes, Cheng, brambles. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree an
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 145

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After a few minutes rest, Cheng-Si picked her way carefully through the briars and brambles covering the trunk of the tree and began to stroll about the garden.

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**Who acts:** few minutes, Cheng, brambles · **What happens:** rest, pick, cover, begin, stroll · **To what, where:** way, briars, trunk

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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 (few minutes, Cheng, brambles), 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:pg78208:8:147
# text = After a few minutes rest, Cheng-Si picked her way carefully through the briars and brambles covering the trunk of the tree and began to stroll about the garden.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	briars	briar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	brambles	bramble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	stroll	stroll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | present | a few minutes |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pick** | past | Cheng | other's way |  | the briars and brambles |  | carefully *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 3 | **cover** | gerund | brambles *not said here* | the trunk of the tree |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Destination |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Cheng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **stroll** | to-infinitive | Cheng *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the garden | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about garden=Trajectory |

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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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