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title: He untied the cord from about his neck and started in headlong pursu… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He untied the cord from about his neck and started in headlong pursuit after the charming apparition. ’ Who acts: glimpse. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 166

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He untied the cord from about his neck and started in headlong pursuit after the charming apparition. ’

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**Who acts:** glimpse · **What happens:** untie, start · **To what, where:** cord, headlong pursuit

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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 (glimpse), 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:pg78208:8:168
# text = He untied the cord from about his neck and started in headlong pursuit after the charming apparition. ’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	untied	untie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	apparition	apparition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **untie** | past | glimpse | the cord |  |  |  | from glimpse's neck | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient from neck=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **start** | past | glimpse *not said here* |  |  | headlong pursuit | after the charming apparition |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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