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title: Ja-Jo-Mi, feigning to acquiesce in the desires of his sovereign, wit… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Ja-Jo-Mi, feigning to acquiesce in the desires of his sovereign, withdrew backwards, saying: Who acts: Ja. 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 36

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Ja-Jo-Mi, feigning to acquiesce in the desires of his sovereign, withdrew backwards, saying:

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**Who acts:** Ja · **What happens:** feign, acquiesce, withdraw, say, desire · **To what, where:** desires, sovereign · **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 (Ja), 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:pg78208:8:36
# text = Ja-Jo-Mi, feigning to acquiesce in the desires of his sovereign, withdrew backwards, saying:
1	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	feigning	feign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	acquiesce	acquiesce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feign** | gerund | Ja and Mi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **acquiesce** | to-infinitive | Ja and Mi *not said here* |  |  | the desires of Mi's sovereign |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past | Ja and Mi |  |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ja and Mi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **desire** |  |  | Mi's sovereign |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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