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title: He asked you to guide and advise me but did not intimate that you sh… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He asked you to guide and advise me but did not intimate that you should take my place at the head of the Koreans. Who acts: youth, you. 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 32

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He asked you to guide and advise me but did not intimate that you should take my place at the head of the Koreans.

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**Who acts:** youth, you · **What happens:** ask, guide, advise, not intimate, take · **To what, where:** you, me, place, head · **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 (youth, you), 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:pg78208:8:32
# text = He asked you to guide and advise me but did not intimate that you should take my place at the head of the Koreans.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	advise	advise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	intimate	intimate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Koreans	Korean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | youth |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **guide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **advise** *speech: other* | infinitive | youth *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **intimate** *speech: other* | past · do-support | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | should | you | my place |  | the head of the Koreans |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at head=Asset |

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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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