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title: The welfare of the people compels me to discuss with you certain thi… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The welfare of the people compels me to discuss with you certain things which I fain would defer to a more opportune moment.” Who acts: welfare, I, certain things. 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 22

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The welfare of the people compels me to discuss with you certain things which I fain would defer to a more opportune moment.”

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**Who acts:** welfare, I, certain things · **What happens:** compel, discuss, fain, defer · **To what, where:** me, certain things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (welfare, I, certain things), 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:pg78208:8:22
# text = The welfare of the people compels me to discuss with you certain things which I fain would defer to a more opportune moment.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	compels	compel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	discuss	discuss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fain	fain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	defer	defer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
22	opportune	opportune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compel** | present | the welfare of the people | me |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the welfare of the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fain** | present | I | certain things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **defer** | would | certain things |  |  |  | moment |  | vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V»: agent=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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